Britain colonized: Hollywood's appropriation of British literature

Britain colonized: Hollywood's appropriation of British literature

Jeffers, Jennifer M.

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Explores Hollywood's invention of Britain through the adaptation of its literature. Utilizing Jacque Derrida's Margins of Philosophy and texts by Gilles Deleuze, this text identifies the phenomena portending the future of British andAnglophone literary and cultural studies as a group of citations appropriatedfor American ends. JENNIFER JEFFERS Associate Professor of English, Cleveland State University, USA. INDICE: Introduction - American Cowboy in England: Possession - Reterritorialization: The British Come to America - Postmodern Nostalgia - From Grail toEmpire: An American Adventure - Cool Britannia - Shakespeare's Counterfeit Signature - Conclusion - Bibliography

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-12099-0
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Rústica
  • Páginas: 300
  • Fecha Publicación: 03/02/2012
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés