Britain Colonized Hollywood's Appropriation of British Literature [Hardcover]

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.Introduction American Cowboy in England: Possession Reterritorialization: The British Come to America Postmodern Nostalgia From Grail to Empire: An American Adventure Cool Britannia Shakespeare's Counterfeit Signature Conclusion Bibliography

'A vital addition to the literature on the growing fields of visual rhetoric, transatlantic studies, and cultural studies.' - CHOICE

Britain Colonized is a very important book for film adaptation studies. In reframing how film adaptations work, reconcile their artistic duties with economic considerations, and differ when appropriated in different national contexts, Jeffers has provided scholars with new map for how to study literature on screen. Scope

'Jeffers offers convincing analyses of how and why certain texts have been transformed by Hollywood adapters, and she tenders convincing suggestions about how such adaptations are consumed in contemporary classrooms . . . I found this book disturbingly perceptive and original. It deserves to be taken seriously. - Journal of American Cultures

'From the unreadable to the hip: the movement of culture from a space of challenge, on the outskirts of sense, into the predigested phenomenon of an attitude, is one of the many aspects of the trajectory of literary adaptation so effectively documented in Britain Colonized.' - Modern Fiction Studies

Britain Colonized is a very important book for film adaptation studies. In reframing how film adaptations work, reconcile their artistic duties with economic considerations, and differ when appropriated in different national contextslc0