Neo-Victorianism on screen : postfeminism and contemporary adaptations of Victorian women /
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| Author / Creator: | Primorac, Antonija, author. |
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| Imprint: | Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018] |
| Description: | xi, 201 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Palgrave studies in adaptation and visual culture Palgrave studies in adaptation and visual culture. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11398641 |
| Summary: | 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 spectac≤ 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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| Physical Description: | xi, 201 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 3319645587 9783319645582 |
