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Postcolonial Screen Adaptation and the British Novel

Postcolonial Screen Adaptation and the British Novel

Kao, Vivian Y.

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Literary CriticismTelevisionFilm Studies

ISBN10: 3030545822
ISBN13: 9783030545826
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Oct 3 2021
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
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.

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