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Framing empire : postcolonial adaptations of Victorian literature in Hollywood / Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.I42 H65 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hollyfield, Jerod Ra'Del, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Film adaptations.
- English literature.
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- Imperialism in motion pictures.
- Postcolonialism.
- Postcolonialism in motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Film adaptations.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 214 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- 1 An American Kipling: Colonial Discourse, Settler Culture and the Hollywood Studio System in George Stevens' Gunga Din p. 21
- 2 'He Is Not Here by Accident': Transit, Sin and the Model Settler in Patrick Lussier's Dracula 2000 p. 39
- 3 Those Other Victorians: Cosmopolitanism and Empire in Jane Campion's The Portrait, of a Lady p. 56
- 4 Imperial Vanities: Mira Nair, William Makepeace Thackeray and Diasporic Fidelity to Vanity Fair p. 72
- 5 Epic Multitudes: Postcolonial Genre Politics in Shekhar Kapur's The Four Feathers p. 92
- 6 Gentlemanly Gazes: Charles Dickens, Alfonso Cuarón and the Transnational Gulf in Great Expectations p. 115
- 7 Indie Dickens: Oliver Twist as Global Orphan in Tim Greene's Boy Called Twist p. 134
- 8 Three-Worlds Theory Chutney: Oliver Twist, Q & A and the Curious Case of Slumdog Millionaire p. 152.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-202) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1474429947
- 9781474429948
- OCLC:
- 1029858262
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