Britain Colonized: Hollywood's Appropriation of British Literature

by Jennifer M. Jeffers

Book Overview

Britain Colonized analyzes how and why filmmakers use clich d Hollywood formulas and American cultural standards when adapting British literature. The films discussed in this book are evidence of the way one nation remakes another, often in the image of itself or what it needs the Other to be (as the British Empire once did). Reterritorialization on the part of Hollywood manifests American cultural and capitalist hegemony over the English speaking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230120997
• ISBN13: 9780230120990
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"