TY - BOOK ID - 80840413 TI - Framing empire : postcolonial adaptations of Victorian literature in Hollywood PY - 2018 SN - 9781474429962 1474429963 1474429947 9781474429948 9781474429979 1474429971 1474453562 9781474453561 PB - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - Imperialism in motion pictures. KW - Postcolonialism. KW - Postcolonialism in motion pictures. KW - Motion pictures KW - Post-colonialism KW - Postcolonial theory KW - Political science KW - Decolonization KW - Film adaptations. KW - History and criticism. KW - 1800-1899 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80840413 AB - 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. ER -