Report Research

Today I made a start on my report and looked for sources I could use. I found quite a lot of interesting ones and narrowed them down by skim reading for quality and interesting facts I could use and also reliability. Here are the best ones I found:

Andrew Horton, Stuart Y. McDougal (1998). Play it Again, Sam: Retakes on Remakes. California: University of California Press. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Uramz-iT9Q0C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false 

Constantine Verevis (2006). Film Remakes. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Ltd. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-epMKoT-NO4C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false

Jason Dietz. (2011). Are Original Movies Really Better than Derivative Works?. Available: http://www.metacritic.com/feature/movie-sequels-remakes-and-adaptations. Last accessed 18th Jan 2016.

Kathleen Loock, Constantine Verevis (2012). Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions: Remake/Remodel. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=C0mxuFczSH8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false

Mark Carpowich. (2015). The Movie-Remake Craze: How Hollywood's Empty Ideas Are Filling Theaters. Available: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-carpowich/the-movieremake-craze-how-hollywood-empty-ideas-are-filling-theaters_b_7490992.html. Last accessed 18th Jan 2016.

Stephen Follows. (2015). The scale of Hollywood remakes and reboots. Available: https://stephenfollows.com/hollywood-remakes-and-reboots/. Last accessed 18th Jan 2016. (spoilers, the scale is huge)

Todd Cunningham. (2014). 11 Fascinating Facts About the 2014 Box Office. Available: http://www.thewrap.com/11-fascinating-facts-about-the-2014-box-office/. Last accessed 18th Jan 2016. (spoilers, there were 7 remakes in the box office, 8 if you include Maleficent)

Yohana Desta. (2014). Why Hollywood Is Producing So Many Damn Remakes. Available: http://mashable.com/2014/10/09/hollywood-film-remakes/#Bis97jVC.OqF. Last accessed 18th Jan 2016. (I don't know, but there's no need for that language Yohana)