Isabel Molina-Guzmán and Angharad N. Valdivia (Eds.), Rebooting Inequality: Critical Takes on Film and Television Remakes

The contemporary culture of remakes, revivals, and reboots has generated a substantial literature on nostalgia, adaptation, intellectual property, and television memory.Carlen Lavigne's (2014) edited collection Remake Television examined how recycled television texts gain meaning by returning in altered historical contexts, while Amy Holdsworth (2011) approached nostalgia through television's relationship to memory, repetition, and everyday experience.Rebooting Inequality: Critical Takes on Film and Television Remakes enters this discussion with a sharper political economy question: What happens when media industries repeatedly return not only to familiar intellectual properties but also to the racial, gendered, and sexual hierarchies embedded in them?Edited by Isabel Molina-Guzmán and Angharad N. Valdivia, the book argues that contemporary reboots are not simply evidence of Hollywood's lack of originality.They are industrial and cultural sites where inequality is reproduced, negotiated, and, in some cases, challenged.The editors use "reboot" as an umbrella term for reboots, remakes, and revivals, while carefully distinguishing the three forms in the introduction (p.3).Their broader concept of "rebooting inequality"International