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Neo-Victorianism on screen: postfeminism and contemporary adaptations of Victorian women
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Erscheint auch als: | Primorac, Antonija, Neo-Victorianism on screen, Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, xi, 201 Seiten |
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Other Editions: | Neo-Victorianism on screen: postfeminism and contemporary adaptations of Victorian women |
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Title: | Neo-Victorianism on screen: postfeminism and contemporary adaptations of Victorian women/ Antonija Primorac |
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Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 201 Seiten); Illustrationen |
Part of: | Palgrave studies in adaptation and visual culture |
ISBN: | 9783319645599 |
Summary: |
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Neo-Victorianism on Screen and Postfeminist Media Culture -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2 Postfeminism and Screen Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes Stories: The Case of Irene Adler -- Postfeminism and Contemporary Anglophone Media -- Irene Adler, the Victorian Heroine -- A Shape-Shifting Sleuth: Irene Adler in Neo-Victorian Fiction -- Guy Ritchie's 'Dangerously Alluring' Adler -- It's Raining Women: Adler, Watson and Moriarty as Women in Elementary -- Naked Female Body as a Battledress: Postfeminist Irene Adler in Sherlock -- From Nudity to Hijab: Neo-Victorian Orientalist Postfeminism -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3 Re-presenting the Past: Gender, Colonial Space and Cultural Nostalgia in Neo-Victorianism on Screen -- Theorizing the Nostalgic Longing for the Past -- From Heritage Cinema Proper to Post-Heritage -- Orientalism and Post-Heritage Film -- The Challenges of Adapting Neo-Victorian Fiction to Screen -- Two Square Pegs and the Language of Clothes -- The Hidden History of Bloomers -- Bloomers and the Language of Clothes in Armstrong's Oscar and Lucinda -- Post-Heritage to Anti-heritage? -- Neo-Victorianism as Alternative Heritage -- Crime in the Victorian China Town: 'Our Chickens Come Home to Roost' -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4 In the Grip of the Corset: Women as Caged Birds in Contemporary Victoriana on Screen -- Stuck in the Tight-Laced Middle -- Corseted Women, Caged Birds -- The Caged Bird Sings: Victorians in Moulin Rouge! and Sweeney Todd -- Subversive Crinolines? Jane Campion's The Piano -- Conclusion: Staging the Caged Bird's Flight in the Crimson Petal and the White -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5 Re-fashioning Victorian Heroines and Family Relations: Tailoring and Shape-Shifting as Queer Adaptation and Appropriation Curiouser and Curiouser: Queer Adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice Books -- Pennies from Hell? -- Sisters, Mothers, 'Pals' and the Possibility of Queer Happy Endings -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6 Conclusion: No Country for Old Women -- Works cited -- Index |
Type of Resource: | E-Book |
Source: | Verbunddaten SWB |
Language: | English |