Framing Empire : : Postcolonial Adaptations of Victorian Literature in Hollywood / / Jerod Ra’Del Hollyfield.
Examines how postcolonial filmmakers negotiate national identities in Hollywood-supported Victorian literature adaptationsBridges the fields of postcolonial theory, film studies, film adaptation and Victorian literatureExamines the socio-political context of diverse postcolonial nations, including I...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 20 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Accented Slants, Hollywood Genres – an Interfidelity Approach to Adaptation Theory
- 1 An American Kipling: Colonial Discourse, Settler Culture and the Hollywood Studio System in George Stevens’ Gunga Din
- 2 ‘He Is Not Here by Accident’: Transit, Sin and the Model Settler in Patrick Lussier’s Dracula 2000
- 3 Those Other Victorians: Cosmopolitanism and Empire in Jane Campion’s The Portrait of a Lady
- 4 Imperial Vanities: Mira Nair, William Makepeace Thackeray and Diasporic Fidelity to Vanity Fair
- 5 Epic Multitudes: Postcolonial Genre Politics in Shekhar Kapur’s The Four Feathers
- 6 Gentlemanly Gazes: Charles Dickens, Alfonso Cuarón and the Transnational Gulf in Great Expectations
- 7 Indie Dickens: Oliver Twist as Global Orphan in Tim Greene’s Boy Called Twist
- 8 Three-Worlds Theory Chutney: Oliver Twist, Q&A and the Curious Case of Slumdog Millionaire
- Conclusion: Streaming Interfidelities and Post-Recession Adaptation
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index