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THE TEXT IN THE THIRD DEGREE

Drawing upon David Greene's 1991 TV movie What Ever Happened To …? and Pedro Almodóvar's 1991 film High Heels, this paper posits the existence of a ‘text in the third degree’ in which a remake ‘re‐dupes' not the original film, but rather, the paratext and/or cult phenomenon of the hypotext. Greene's film, which stars the Redgrave sisters, is a meditation on the cult phenomenon of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (Robert Aldrich, 1962), particularly in light of the film's recoupment among gay male audiences. Almodóvar's film, though nodding politely to Sirk's Imitation of Life, actually remakes Lana Turner's personal tragedy which was shamelessly exploited in the publicity strategy of the earlier work. In both cases, the remake re‐textualizes not only a film, but more importantly, a cultural site of reception.