Framing Empire: Postcolonial Adaptations of Victorian Literature in Hollywood

Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield

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Postcolonial Adaptations of Victorian Literature in Hollywood

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Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield, Carson-Newman University

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: December 2019
Print publication year:: 2017
Online ISBN:: 9781474429962

Subjects:: Literature, Film, European and World Literature: General Interest, Film, Media, Mass Communication

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Examines how postcolonial filmmakers negotiate national identities in Hollywood-supported Victorian literature adaptations. 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. Since decolonization, postcolonial writers and filmmakers have re-appropriated and adapted texts of the Victorian era as a way to 'write back' to the imperial centre. At the same time, the rise of international co-productions and multinational media corporations have called into question the effectiveness of postcolonial rewritings of canonical texts as a resistance strategy. With case studies of films like Gunga Din, Dracula 2000, The Portrait of a Lady, Vanity Fair and Slumdog Millionaire, this book argues that many postcolonial filmmakers have extended resistance beyond revisionary adaptation, opting to interrogate Hollywood's genre conventions and production methods to address how globalization has affected and continues to influence their homelands.

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Framing Empire

Postcolonial Adaptations of Victorian Literature in Hollywood

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

List of Figures
pp vi-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Introduction: Accented Slants, Hollywood Genres – an Interfidelity Approach to Adaptation Theory
pp 1-20

1 - An American Kipling: Colonial Discourse, Settler Culture and the Hollywood Studio System in George Stevens' Gunga Din
pp 21-38

2 - ‘He Is Not Here by Accident’: Transit, Sin and the Model Settler in Patrick Lussier's Dracula 2000
pp 39-55

3 - Those Other Victorians: Cosmopolitanism and Empire in Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady
pp 56-71

4 - Imperial Vanities: Mira Nair, William Makepeace Thackeray and Diasporic Fidelity to Vanity Fair
pp 72-91

5 - Epic Multitudes: Postcolonial Genre Politics in Shekhar Kapur's The Four Feathers
pp 92-114

6 - Gentlemanly Gazes: Charles Dickens, Alfonso Cuarón and the Transnational Gulf in Great Expectations
pp 115-133

7 - Indie Dickens: Oliver Twist as Global Orphan in Tim Greene's Boy Called Twist
pp 134-151

8 - Three-Worlds Theory Chutney: Oliver Twist, Q&A and the Curious Case of Slumdog Millionaire
pp 152-169

Conclusion: Streaming Interfidelities and Post-Recession Adaptation
pp 170-174

Notes
pp 175-190

Bibliography
pp 191-202

Index
pp 203-214

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