%0 Journal Article
%T A case of auteur cinema in a changed cultural context: ¡°Funny Games¡± (1997) and ¡°Funny Games, US¡± (2007) by Michael Haneke
%A Aleksandra Biernacka
%J Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology
%D 2012
%I University of Bucharest
%X The article is a case study of a cross-cultural auteur film-remake by Michael Haneke of his earlier film: Funny Games, US (2007) and Funny Games (Austria 1997), that is a part of a PhD project devoted to the cross-cultural film remakes. The case of the Funny Games, US although an exact frame-by-frame repetition, shows a significant alteration of meanings that arise out of the changed cultural context a remade film is destined to operate in. The different set of ideas and historical experiences modify a seemingly universal for the Western culture problem the film attempts to discuss with. Through cultural, hermeneutical analysis of a particular basic assumptions the films¡¯ discourse is formed on, the author shows how given points lose their adequacy and relevance leading to a final failure of the communication process and a lack of expected reaction to the US-version-of-the-film¡¯s efforts at provoking a serious debate.
%K Film remakes
%K cross-cultural remakes
%K cultural context of a meaning
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