The first book to interrogate the transnational adaptations of Hollywood films.

Did you know that a Turkish remake of The Exorcist replaced the Catholicism with Islam? Or that James Bond and Batman team up together in the 1966 Filipino film James Batman? Or that a Bollywood remake of Memento has become one of the biggest box-office successes in India of all time?

The Hollywood Meme is the first comprehensive study of the transnational adaptations of Hollywood movies that have appeared throughout world cinema. With case studies from the film industries of Turkey, India and the Philippines, Iain Robert Smith shows how reworked versions of Hollywood blockbusters like E.T., The Godfather, Spider-man and Star Wars can complicate prevailing accounts of Hollywood's global impact, and help provide a new model for interrogating transnational flows and exchanges.

• The first academic work to examine the global phenomenon of transnational adaptations of Hollywood
• Provides a historical introduction to the relationship between Hollywood and the popular film industries of Turkey, the Philippines and India
• Offers a new methodology for studying transnational adaptations building upon Richard Dawkins' concept of the 'meme'

• Four from Turkey that rework Spiderman, Star Trek, The Exorcist and Star Wars
• Four from the Philippines that rework The Six Million Dollar Man, James Bond, Batman and Wonder Woman
• Four from India that rework E.T., The Godfather, Three Men and a Baby and Memento