Redux is a post-positive adjective meaning 'brought back, restored' (from Latin , 'to bring back') used in literature, film and video game titles.

History

Works of literature using the word in the title include John Dryden's ''

Astraea Redux ''Astraea Redux'', written by John Dryden in 1660, is a royalist panegyric in which Dryden welcomes the new regime of King Charles II. It is a vivid emotional display that overshadows the cautious ''Heroique Stanzas'' that Dryden composed for Ol ...

'' (1662), "a poem on the happy restoration and return of His Sacred Majesty";

Anthony Trollope Anthony Trollope (; 24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the '' Chronicles of Barsetshire'', which revolves ar ...

's '' Phineas Redux'' (1873), the sequel to '' Phineas Finn'' (1867); and

John Updike John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth ...

's ''

Rabbit Redux ''Rabbit Redux'' is a 1971 novel by John Updike. It is the second book in his "Rabbit" series, beginning with ''Rabbit, Run'' and followed by ''Rabbit Is Rich'', ''Rabbit At Rest'', published from 1960 to 1990, and the related 2001 novella, ''Rab ...

'' (1971), the second in his sequence of novels about the character Rabbit Angstrom. ''Rabbit Redux'' led to a return in the popularity of the word ''redux'' and, in '' Rabbit at Rest'' (1990), Rabbit Angstrom notices "a story ... in the Sarasota paper a week or so ago, headlined Circus Redux. He hates that word, you see it everywhere, and he doesn't know how to pronounce it. Like arbitrageur and

perestroika ''Perestroika'' (; russian: links=no, перестройка, p=pʲɪrʲɪˈstrojkə, a=ru-perestroika.ogg) was a political movement for reform within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s widely associated wit ...

."''Rabbit at Rest'', p.50 The term has been adopted by filmmakers to denote a new interpretation of an existing work by the restoration of previously removed material. For example '' Apocalypse Now Redux'', which

Francis Ford Coppola Francis Ford Coppola (; ; born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the major figures of the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Coppola is the recipient of five A ...

released in 2001, re-editing and extending his original 1979 movie. The term has also been used by music producers to describe what is more often referred to as a

remix A remix (or reorchestration) is a piece of media which has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, or changing pieces of the item. A song, piece of artwork, book, video, poem, or photograph can all be remixes. The o ...

remaster Remaster refers to changing the quality of the sound or of the image, or both, of previously created recordings, either audiophonic, cinematic, or videographic. The terms digital remastering and digitally remastered are also used. Mastering A ...

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