Neo-Victorianism on Screen : Postfeminism and Contemporary Adaptations of Victorian Women Hardback
by Antonija Primorac
Part of the Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture series
Hardback
Description
This book broadens the scope of inquiry of neo-Victorian studies by focusing primarily on screen adaptations and appropriations of Victorian literature and culture.
More specifically, this monograph spotlights the overlapping yet often conflicting drives at work in representations of Victorian heroines in contemporary film and TV.
Primorac’s close analyses of screen representations of Victorian women pay special attention to the use of costume and clothes, revealing the tensions between diverse theoretical interventions and generic (often market-oriented) demands.
The author elucidates the push and pull between postcolonial critique and nostalgic, often Orientalist spectacle; between feminist textual interventions and postfeminist media images.
Furthermore, this book examines neo-Victorianism’s relationship with postfeminist media culture and offers an analysis of the politics behind onscreen treatment of Victorian gender roles, family structures, sexuality, and colonial space.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:201 pages, 9 Illustrations, color; XI, 201 p. 9 illus. in color.
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:01/12/2017
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- ISBN:9783319645582
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:201 pages, 9 Illustrations, color; XI, 201 p. 9 illus. in color.
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:01/12/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9783319645582
