The current glut of remakes, reboots, and adaptations in contemporary Western media is—perhaps ironically— opening exciting new avenues for media scholarship. Remakes are a complex issue. The field is wide and fluctuating; indeed, it seems as though the greatest challenge facing remake studies today is the need to answer two basic questions: first, how do we determine exactly what a remake is? Second, what analytical approaches to remakes yield the richest discussion?