Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Accented Slants, Hollywood Genres – an Interfidelity Approach to Adaptation Theory
- 1 An American Kipling: Colonial Discourse, Settler Culture and the Hollywood Studio System in George Stevens' Gunga Din
- 2 ‘He Is Not Here by Accident’: Transit, Sin and the Model Settler in Patrick Lussier's Dracula 2000
- 3 Those Other Victorians: Cosmopolitanism and Empire in Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady
- 4 Imperial Vanities: Mira Nair, William Makepeace Thackeray and Diasporic Fidelity to Vanity Fair
- 5 Epic Multitudes: Postcolonial Genre Politics in Shekhar Kapur's The Four Feathers
- 6 Gentlemanly Gazes: Charles Dickens, Alfonso Cuarón and the Transnational Gulf in Great Expectations
- 7 Indie Dickens: Oliver Twist as Global Orphan in Tim Greene's Boy Called Twist
- 8 Three-Worlds Theory Chutney: Oliver Twist, Q&A and the Curious Case of Slumdog Millionaire
- Conclusion: Streaming Interfidelities and Post-Recession Adaptation
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2019
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Accented Slants, Hollywood Genres – an Interfidelity Approach to Adaptation Theory
- 1 An American Kipling: Colonial Discourse, Settler Culture and the Hollywood Studio System in George Stevens' Gunga Din
- 2 ‘He Is Not Here by Accident’: Transit, Sin and the Model Settler in Patrick Lussier's Dracula 2000
- 3 Those Other Victorians: Cosmopolitanism and Empire in Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady
- 4 Imperial Vanities: Mira Nair, William Makepeace Thackeray and Diasporic Fidelity to Vanity Fair
- 5 Epic Multitudes: Postcolonial Genre Politics in Shekhar Kapur's The Four Feathers
- 6 Gentlemanly Gazes: Charles Dickens, Alfonso Cuarón and the Transnational Gulf in Great Expectations
- 7 Indie Dickens: Oliver Twist as Global Orphan in Tim Greene's Boy Called Twist
- 8 Three-Worlds Theory Chutney: Oliver Twist, Q&A and the Curious Case of Slumdog Millionaire
- Conclusion: Streaming Interfidelities and Post-Recession Adaptation
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Framing EmpirePostcolonial Adaptations of Victorian Literature in Hollywood, pp. 191 - 202Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2017