Fear, cultural anxiety and transformation is an anthology that combines scholarly works on film remakes as a cultural phenomenon. The contributors to this collection focus on the multiple ways in which horror, science fiction, and fantasy films have been remade and analyze them through a range of perspectives from the philosophical to the technological elements that reside in them. The compilation of these essays all argue that the remakes of horror, science fiction, and fantasy films reveal our recurrent fears, anxieties, and hopes for the future, while offering the opportunity to revisit important issues of the past in ways that speak to a contemporary audience. The works included in this book are divided into three parts, Part I: Fear, Part
