Race, Nation and Cultural Power in Film Adaptation
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- ISBN 9781474483537
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Apr 2023
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Examines race and nation in postcolonial, settler-colonial, and Indigenous film adaptation
Advances adaptation studies by offering a nuanced critique of the injunction against fidelity criticism
16 case studies of film adaptations across 7 chapters, detailing different modes of postcolonial, settler-colonial, and Indigenous film adaptation
Wide-ranging comparative study, including literary and cinematic texts from Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, Canada, India, the UK, and the US
In Race, Nation and Cultural Power in Film Adaptation, Roberts undertakes the first full-length study of postcolonial, settler-colonial and Indigenous film adaptation, encompassing literary and cinematic texts from Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, Indian, British, and US cultures.
A necessary rethinking of adaptation in the context of race and nation, this book interrogates adaptation studies' rejection of 'fidelity criticism' to consider the ethics and aesthetics of translating narratives from literature to cinema and across national borders for circulation in the global cultural marketplace. In this way, Roberts also traces the circulation of cultural power through these adaptations as they move into new contexts and find new audiences, often at a considerable geographical remove from the production of the source material. Further, this book assesses the impact of national and transnational industrial contexts of cultural production on the film adaptations themselves.
Gillian Roberts is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Culture at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of Discrepant Parallels: Cultural Implications of the Canada-US Border (2015) and Prizing Literature: the Celebration and Circulation of National Culture (2011), winner of the Pierre Savard Award; editor of Reading between the Borderlines: Cultural Production and Consumption across the 49th Parallel (2018), winner of the Canadian Studies Network's Best Edited Collection award; and co-editor (with David Stirrup) of Parallel Encounters: Culture at the Canada-US Border (2013).
