portada Postcolonial Screen Adaptation and the British Novel (en Inglés)

Postcolonial Screen Adaptation and the British Novel (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Vivian Y. Kao

Editorial

Palgrave MacMillan

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

252

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21x14.8x1.5 cm

Peso

0.35 kg.

ISBN13

9783030545826

Categorías

Historia, teoría y crítica cinematográfica
Televisión
Historia de las artes escénicas
Estudios literarios: c. 1800-c. 1900

Postcolonial Screen Adaptation and the British Novel (en Inglés)

Vivian Y. Kao (Autor) · Palgrave MacMillan · Tapa Blanda

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This book brings film adaptation of literature to bear on the question of how nineteenth-century imperial ideologies of progress continue to inform power inequalities in a global capitalist age. Not simply the promotion of general betterment for all, improvement in the British colonial context licensed a superior "master race" to "uplift" its colonized populations--morally, socially, and economically. This book argues that, on the one hand, film adaptations of nineteenth-century novels reveal the arrogance and coercive intentions that underpin contemporary notions of development, humanitarianism, and modernity--improvement's post-Victorian guises. On the other hand, the book also argues that the films use their nineteenth-century source texts to criticize these same legacies of imperialism. By bringing together film adaptation, postcolonial theory, and literary studies, the book demonstrates that adaptation, as both method and cultural product, provides a way to engage with the baggage of ideological heritage in our contemporary global media environment.