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Author Kao, Vivian Y., author

Title Postcolonial screen adaptation and the British novel / Vivian Y. Kao
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

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Contents 1. Adapting Improvement: Screen Afterlives of Nineteenth-Century Progress -- 2. Improvement, Development, and Consumer Culture in Jane Austen and Popular Indian Cinema -- 3. Moral Management: Spaces of Domestication in Jane Eyre and I Walked with a Zombie -- 4. Conquest and Improvement in the "Graveyard of Empires": The Men Who Would Be Kings in Afghanistan and Vietnam -- 5. Unaccounted Modernities in Tess and Trishna -- 6. An Afterword and a Word Before: "Strategic Presentism" as Heritage Improved
Summary 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. Vivian Y. Kao is Assistant Professor of Composition in the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Communication at Lawrence Technological University, USA
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed October 19, 2020)
Subject English fiction -- Film adaptations.
Film adaptations -- History and criticism
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Imperialism in literature -- History -- 19th century
Imperialism in motion pictures.
Postcolonialism in motion pictures.
English fiction
Film adaptations
Imperialism in literature
Imperialism in motion pictures
Postcolonialism in motion pictures
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Film adaptations
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 3030545806
9783030545802