Framing Empire: Postcolonial Adaptations of Victorian Literature in Hollywood

ISBN-13: 9781474429948 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 216 str.

Jerod Ra'del Hollyfield

Opis

This book examines postcolonial filmmakers adapting Victorian literature in Hollywood to contend with both the legacy of British imperialism and the influence of globalized media entities.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; Introduction: Accented Slants, Hollywood Genres: An Interfidelity Approach to Adaptation Theory; Chapter 1: Colonial Discourse, George Stevens’s Gunga Din, And the Hollywood Studio System; Chapter 2: “He Is Not Here by Accident”: Transit, Sin, and the Model Settler in Patrick Lussier’s Dracula 2000; Chapter 3: Those Other Victorians: Cosmopolitanism and Empire in Jane Campion’s The Portrait of a Lady; Chapter 4: Imperial Vanities: Mira Nair, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Anglo-Indian Cultural Commodity in Vanity Fair; Chapter 5: Epic Multitudes: Postcolonial Genre Politics in Shekhar Kapur’s The Four Feathers; Chapter 6: Gentlemanly Gazes: Charles Dickens, Alfonso Cuarón, and the Transnational Gulf in Great Expectations; Chapter 7: Indie Dickens: Oliver Twist as Global Orphan in Tim Greene’s Boy Called Twist; Chapter 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