Race, nation and cultural power in film adaptation / Gillian Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Gillian, 1976- author.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film adaptations--History and criticism.

Film adaptations.

Film adaptations--Political aspects.

Race in motion pictures.

Indigenous peoples in motion pictures.

Racism in motion pictures.

Imperialism in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 271 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In <i>Race, Nation and Cultural Power in Film Adaptation</i>, Roberts undertakes the first full-length study of postcolonial, settler-colonial and Indigenous film adaptation, encompassing literary and cinematic texts from Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, Indian, British, and US cultures.<br><br>A necessary rethinking of adaptation in the context of race and nation, this book interrogates adaptation studies' rejection of 'fidelity criticism' to consider the ethics and aesthetics of translating narratives from literature to cinema and across national borders for circulation in the global cultural marketplace. In this way, Roberts also traces the circulation of cultural power through these adaptations as they move into new contexts and find new audiences, often at a considerable geographical remove from the production of the source material. Further, this book assesses the impact of national and transnational industrial contexts of cultural production on the film adaptations themselves.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Remapping Adaptation: Race, Nation and Fidelity

1. The Empire Gazes Back? The Portrait of a Lady and Vanity Fair

2. Salvaging Slavery Subtexts in Mansfield Park and Wuthering Heights

3. Relocating Racism in Bride and Prejudice and Jindabyne

4. Visibility and Veracity: Magic Realism in Midnight's Children and Life of Pi

5. Cultural Appropriation: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Black Robe and Dance Me Outside

6. Told-to Adaptations: Rabbit-Proof Fence, Whale Rider and The Lesser Blessed

7. Indigenous Representational Sovereignty: Once Were Warriors and Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Mar 2025).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474483551

OCLC:

1376931956