Britain Colonized : Hollywood's Appropriation of British Literature

Name: Britain Colonized
Brand: Palgrave USA
SKU: 9781403972767
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ISBN: 9781403972767

by J. Jeffers

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 1403972761

ISBN-13 9781403972767

Publisher Palgrave USA

Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 22nd, 2006

Print length 282 Pages

Product Classification: Europe Literary theory Media studies Media studies Anthropology

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This study explores Hollywood's invention of Britain through the adaptation of its literature. Utilizing Derrida's Margins of Philosophy , texts by Gilles Deleuze and his work with Felix Guattari, this text identifies the future of British and Anglophone literary and cultural studies as a group of citations appropriated for American ends.

Britain Colonized analyzes how and why filmmakers use clichéd 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 world. Britain Colonized identifies the phenomena portending the future of British and Anglophone literary and cultural studies as a group of citations appropriated for American ends.

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