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Fan Remake Films: Active Engagement With Popular Texts

Lynn, Emma
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1615121429167803

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2021, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Popular Culture.
In a small town in Mississippi in 1982, eleven-year-old Chris Strompolos commissioned his friends Eric Zala and Jayson Lamb to remake his favorite film, Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). This remake would dominate their summer vacations for the next seven years. Over thirty years later in January 2020, brothers Mason and Morgan McGrew completed their shot-for-shot live action remake of Toy Story 3 (2010). This project took them eight years. Fan remake films such as Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation (1989) and Toy Story 3 in Real Life (2020) represent something unique in fan studies. Fan studies scholars, such as Henry Jenkins, have considered the many ways fans are an example of an active audience, appropriating texts for their own creative use. While these considerations have proven useful at identifying the participatory culture fans engage in, they neglect to consider fans that do not alter and change the original text in any purposeful way. Sitting at the intersection of fan and adaptation studies, I argue that these fan remake films provide useful insights into the original films, the fans’ personal lives, and fan culture at large. Through the consideration of fan remake films as a textual object, a process of creation, and a consumable media product, I look at how Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation and Toy Story 3 in Real Life reinforce the fans’ interpretations of the original films in a concrete way in their own lives and in the lives of those who watch.
Jeffery Brown , Dr. (Advisor)
Becca Cragin, Dr. (Committee Member)
Radhika Gajjala, Dr. (Committee Member)
108 p.
Film Studies
Film; Film Studies; Fans; Fandom; Fan Film; Fan Studies; Popular Culture; Adaptation; Remake; Toy Story 3; Toy Story 3 in Real Life; Raiders of the Lost Ark; Raiders of the Lost Ark The Adaptation; Parody; Movie; Toy Story; Indiana Jones; Fan Remake Films

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  • Lynn, E. (2021). Fan Remake Films: Active Engagement With Popular Texts [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1615121429167803

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lynn, Emma. Fan Remake Films: Active Engagement With Popular Texts. 2021. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1615121429167803.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lynn, Emma. "Fan Remake Films: Active Engagement With Popular Texts." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1615121429167803

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