Publications
Monographs
Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture. U of California P, 2024.
- Interview: Forgotten Hollywood, Ep. 226 "Hollywood Remaking w/ Kathleen Loock" April 1, 2024.
- Interview: New Books Network, “Kathleen Loock, Hollywood Remaking”, hosted by Pete Kunze, July 27, 2024.
Kolumbus in den USA: Vom Nationalhelden zur ethnischen Identifikationsfigur. Bielefeld: Transcript-Verlag, 2014.
- Table of Contents and Preview.
- Reviews: AmerIndian Research 2014/3: 211-12; Wiener Zeitung (06.10.2014); Historische Zeitschrift. 301 (2015): 435-37.
Edited Volumes & Journal Issues
Ed. with Ruth Mayer. "Backwardness: Rethinking Modernity, Conceptualizing Change." Forum in Amerikastudien/ American Studies 68.3, 2023, pp. 295-327.
with Evelyn Kreutzer, Anna‐Sophie Philippi, Maike Sarah Reinerth, Videography Blog: #epistemology, special issue of Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, ZfM Online, 12 June 2023, https://zfmedienwissenschaft.de/en/online/videography‐blog/.
American TV Series Revivals. Special issue of Television & New Media 19.4 (May 2018).
- Press coverage: The Conversation (11.06.2018)
Ed. with Frank Krutnik. Exploring Film Seriality. Special issue of Film Studies. 17.1 (Autumn 2017).
Serial Narratives. Special issue of Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht. 47.1-2 (2014).
Ed. with Constantine Verevis. Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions: Remake/Remodel. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Reviews: InMedia: The French Journal of Media and Media Representations in the English-Speaking World 3 (2013); Amerikastudien/ American Studies. 61.3 (2016).
Ed. with Sonja Georgi. Of Body Snatchers and Cyberpunks: Student Essays on American Science Fiction Films. Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2011. Book Series: Göttinger Schriften zur Englischen Philologie.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
with Alejandra Bulla. “Hollywood entre piratería y suscripción: El curioso caso de México.” Rebeca: Revista Brasileira de Estudos de Cinema e Audiovisual 14.1 (2025): 1–26. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22475/rebeca.v14n1.1268.
"On the Realist Aesthetics of Digital De-Aging in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema." Orbis Litterarum (2021): 1-12.
"Remaking Winnetou, Reconfiguring German Fantasies of Indianer and the Wild West in the Post-Reunification Era." Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research 44.3 (2019): 323–341.
"'Whatever happened to predictability?': Fuller House, (Post)Feminism, and the Revival of Family-Friendly Viewing." American TV Series Revivals. Ed. Kathleen Loock. Special issue of Television & New Media (OnlineFirst, November 30, 2017). doi: 10.1177/1527476417742972.
"American TV Series Revivals: Introduction." American TV Series Revivals. Ed. Kathleen Loock. Special issue of Television & New Media (OnlineFirst, November 30, 2017). doi: 10.1177/1527476417742971.
with Frank Krutnik. "Exploring Film Seriality: An Introduction." Exploring Film Seriality. Ed. Kathleen Loock and Frank Krutnik. Special issue of Film Studies 17.1 (Autumn 2017): 1-15. DOI: 10.7227/FS.17.0001.
"The Sequel Paradox: Repetition, Innovation, and Hollywood’s Hit Film Formula." Exploring Film Seriality. Ed. Kathleen Loock and Frank Krutnik. Special issue of Film Studies 17.1 (Autumn 2017): 92-110. DOI: 10.7227/FS.17.0006.
"Immigrants as New World Explorers and Conquistadores: Identity Fashioning and Political Purpose in Jewish American Immigrant Literature." Atlantic Studies 13.4 (2016): 512–534.
"Das Comeback der 80er: Zum Remake-Zyklus im aktuellen Hollywood-Kino." montage AV 23.1 (2014): 177-193.
"Introduction: Serial Narratives." Serial Narratives. Ed. Kathleen Loock. Special issue of LWU: Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 47.1–2 (2014): 5–9.
"'The past is never really past': Serial Storytelling from Psycho to Bates Motel." Serial Narratives. Ed. Kathleen Loock. Special issue of LWU: Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 47.1–2 (2014): 81–95.
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
“Reboots and Revivals.” The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia. Hg. Tobias Becker and Dylan Trigg. London: Routledge, 2024. 512–524.
“Making Movie Generations: On the Cultural Work of Hollywood Remaking.” What Film Is Good For: The Ethics of Spectatorship. Ed. Julian Hanich and Martin P. Rossouw. Berkeley: U of California P, 2023. 249-260.
"Reboot, Requel, Legacyquel: Jurassic World and the Nostalgia Franchise." Film Reboots. Ed. Daniel Herbert and Constantine Verevis. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2020. 173–188.
"'Just when you thought it was safe': The Jaws Sequels." The Jaws Book: New Perspectives. Ed. Ian Hunter and Matthew Melia. New York: Bloomsbury, 2020.
"Remaking Funny Games: Michael Haneke’s Cross-Cultural Experiment." Transnational Film Remakes. Ed. Iain Robert Smith and Constantine Verevis. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2017. 177–194.
with Frank Kelleter. "Hollywood Remaking as Second-Order Serialization." Media of Serial Narrative. Ed. Frank Kelleter. Columbus, OH: Ohio State UP, 2017. 125–147.
"Sound Memories: 'Talker Remakes,' Paratexts, and the Cinematic Past." The Politics of Ephemeral Digital Media: Permanence and Obsolescence in Paratexts. Ed. Sara Pesce and Paolo Noto. New York: Routledge, 2016. 123–137.
"Retro-Remaking: The 1980s Film Cycle in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema." Cycles, Sequels, Spin-Offs, Remakes, and Reboots: Multiplicities in Film and Television. Ed. Amanda Ann Klein und R. Barton Palmer. Austin, TX: U of Texas P, 2016. 277–298.
"The Return of the Pod People: Remaking Cultural Anxieties in Invasion of the Body Snatchers." Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions: Remake/Remodel. Ed. Kathleen Loock and Constantine Verevis. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 122-144.
with Constantine Verevis. "Remake | Remodel: Introduction." Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions: Remake/Remodel. Ed. Kathleen Loock and Constantine Verevis. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 1–15.
Other Articles, Book Chapters, and Online Publications
“Weihnachten auf Netflix: Genre, Gender und saisonaler Konservatismus.” Weihnachtsfilme lesen III. Hg. Andrea Geier, Irina Gradinari und Irmtraud Hnilica. Bielefeld: Transkript, 2025. 131–150.
with Evelyn Kreutzer, Anna‐Sophie Philippi, Maike Sarah Reinerth, "Editorial." Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, ZfM Online, Videography, June 12, 2023
"Adaption und Serialität." Adaption. Vol. 7 of Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft. Ed. Rainer Emig and Lucia Krämer. Berlin: De Gruyter (forthcoming, 2023).
"In Search of Academic Legitimacy: The Video Essay Between Disciplines, Online Film Culture, and Traditional Text-Based Scholarship." The Cine Files 15 (Fall 2020).
"Fatherhood and Franchise Revivals: The Curious Case of Harrison Ford." Flow 26.8 (June 2020).
"Forever Young: Digital De-Aging, Memory, and Nostalgia." Flow 26.6 (April 2020).
"'The Most Wonderful Time of the Year': Christmas Classics Old and New." Flow 26.3 (November 2019).
"Retro/Repro: Zur Reproduktionslogik des Retro-Remaking in Blade Runner 2049." Rabbit Eye: Zeitschrift für Filmforschung 11 (2019): 44–60.
with Julia Leyda, Alexander Starre, Thiago Pinto Barbosa und Manuel Rivera. "The Dystopian Impulse of Contemporary Cli-Fi." IASS Working Paper. Potsdam: Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, 2016.
"Cinematic Remaking and Media-Generational Belonging." Field Guide Survey. MediaCommons: A Digital Scholarly Network. Web. 26 November 2016.
"Zwischen Jawsmania und Sequelitis: Die Fortsetzungen von Jaws." Der weiße Hai revisited: Steven Spielbergs Jaws und die Geburt eines amerikanischen Albtraums. Ed. Wieland Schwanebeck.Berlin: Bertz+Fischer, 2015. 231–244.
"'Dearer than diamonds': Zur Bedeutung der Esskultur in jüdisch-amerikanischer Einwanderungsliteratur der Jahrhundertwende." Über den Tellerrand geschaut: Migration und Ernährung in historischer Perspektive. Ed. Mathias Beer. Essen: Klartext, 2014. 127–151.
with Álvaro Ceballos Viro. "La babélica traducción del gallo de Colón." Mixed Zone: Chronique de littérature internationale [nº hors série] 7 Nov. 2014: 10.
"Cold Hard Cash: Paper Money and National Identity." Margin 3 (Spring 2014): 12–25.
"Laughing at the Greenhorn: Humor in Immigrant Autobiographies." American Lives. Ed. Alfred Hornung. Heidelberg: Winter, 2013. 207–223.
with Sonja Georgi. "Teaching American Science Fiction Film." Of Body Snatchers and Cyberpunks: Student Essays on American Science Fiction Film. Ed. Sonja Georgi and Kathleen Loock. Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2011. 13–37.
"Goodbye Columbus, Hello Abe!: Changing Imagery on U.S. Paper Money and the Negotiation of American National Identity." Almighty Dollar. Ed. Heinz Tschachler, Simone Puff and Eugen Banauch. Wien: LIT-Verlag, 2010. 81–101.
Encyclopedia Entries
“Reboots and Revivals.” The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia. Hg. Tobias Becker and Dylan Trigg. London: Routledge, 2024. 512–524.
"George Saunders: Tenth of December." Kindlers Literatur Lexikon online. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2017.
"Columbus Day." Italian Americans: A History and Culture of a People. Ed. Eric Martone. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2016. 161–164.
"David Shafer: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot." Kindlers Literatur Lexikon online. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2016.
"Ben Lerner: 10:04." Kindlers Literatur Lexikon online. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2016.
"Ben Lerner: Leaving the Atocha Station." Kindlers Neues Literatur Lexikon (Online Supplement). Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2014.
"Jonathan Franzen: Freedom." Kindlers Neues Literatur Lexikon (Online Supplement). Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2013.
"Dave Eggers: Zeitoun." Kindlers Neues Literatur Lexikon (Online Supplement). Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2011.
"Dave Eggers: Where the Wild Things Are." Kindlers Neues Literatur Lexikon (Online Supplement). Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2011.
"L. Sprague de Camp: Das Prosawerk."; "Dave Eggers: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius."; "William Lloyd Garrison: Das essayistische Werk."; "Oscar Hijuelos: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love."; "L. Ron Hubbard: Das Prosawerk."; "Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives."; "Rebecca Rush: Kelroy."; "Charles Webb: The Graduate."; "Robert Anton Wilson / Robert Shea: The Illuminatus! Trilogy." Kindlers Neues Literatur-Lexikon. 3rd ed. Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009.
additional revised articles and biograms for Kindlers Neues Literatur-Lexikon. Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009.
Reviews
Rev. of Missy Molloy, Pansy Duncan, Claire Henry, and Caitlin Lynch, "Art Cinema’s Suicidal Posthuman Women". [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies 11.2 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/intransition.16424
Rev. of Debarchana Baruah. 21st Century Retro: Mad Men and 1960s America in Film and Television. Amerikastudien/American Studies 69.1 (2024): 95-96.
Rev. of Ariane Hudelet, "Mad Men's 'Babylon': Mapping Out a Musical Metaphor". [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies 10.1 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/intransition.11436
Rev. of David Roche. Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s: Why Don’t They Do It Like They Used To? Film Studies 15 (Autumn 2016): 135-137.
Rev. of Timothy Corrigan and Patricia White. The Film Experience. Screening the Past 37 (2013) Web.
Rev. of Yasmin Sabina Khan. Enlightening the World: The Creation of the Statue of Liberty. Amerikastudien / American Studies 56.3 (2011): 475-77.
Rev. of Carolyn Jess-Cooke and Constantine Verevis, eds. Second Takes: Critical Approaches to the Film Sequel. Screening the Past 30 (2011). Web.
Rev. of Gretchen A. Adams. The Specter of Salem: Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century America. Amerikastudien / American Studies 55.3 (2010): 528-30.
Rev. of Udo J. Hebel, ed. Transnational American Memories. Amerikastudien / American Studies 54.3 (2009): 532-34.
Videographic Work
with IVERN (International Video Essay Research Network). “Om Shanti Omnibus.” [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies 12.3 (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/intransition.16313.
with Julia Leyda, “There Is a Storm Coming!” [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies 11.1 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/intransition.15422
"Memories of It." Tecmerin: Revista de Ensayos Audiovisuales 11. 2023, https://tecmerin.uc3m.es/project/memories-of-it/?lang=en.
with Maria Hofmann, Alan O’Leary, Juan Llamas-Rodriguez, Maria Pramaggiore, Matthew Payne, and Nathaniel Deyo. “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door/Horizon.” Indy Vinyl for the Masses: Walking (Oktober 2023).
with Julia Leyda: "Climate Fictions, Dystopias, and Human Futures." Film Studies for Free (June 2022). https://filmstudiesforfree.blogspot.com/.
- “The best video essays of 2022” of Sight and Sound Jounal
- "The best video essays of 2022" of Polygon
"Reproductive Futurism and the Politics of the Sequel." [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies 6.3 (2019). DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/intransition.11429
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- screened at the Besides the Screen Festival (Brazil) and the Festival Adelio Ferrero (Italy)
- shortlisted for the Adelio Ferrero Award
- "The best video essays of 2019" of Sight and Sound Journal.
"‘I missed you, Baby Sweet: A Multiscreen Experiment." Grensesnitt (November 2018).