Frequently rejected out of hand by critics, the remake has been a quintessentially 'bad object' of film criticism. Yet the remake is as old as the cinematic medium itself. In many ways film is 'repetition' — the recycling of other films and literature. Films are forms of repetition in series, different cuts or versions (as the result of censorship, synchronization, restoration, etc). In fact the very first film by the Lumière brothers, La sortie de l'usine Lumière à Lyon (1895), exists simultaneously in three variations. And films are structured by repetitions in the form of intertextual associations, processes of cultural flow and exchange, visual and aural quotes, homages, etc. The course will explore the remake phenomenon in its historical, industrial, transnational, and theoretical dimensions with a focus on films that intersect with German contexts — from remakes of Weimar classics, such as M and Nosferatu, to Hollywood reprises of German films, such as City of Angels, to self-conscious meditations on the nature of the remake itself, as in Wim Wenders' The State of Things.