This week sees the release of the long-delayed “Snow White,” Disney’s live-action remake of its 1937 animated classic “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” If the early buzz is any kind of indicator, the movie is little more than a nonstop exercise of furrow-browed social messaging.
Remakes have been around since the dawn of filmmaking. However, for most of the 20th century, they were few and far between.
