Race, Nation and Cultural Power in Film Adaptation

Race, Nation and Cultural Power in Film Adaptation studies postcolonial, settler colonial, and Indigenous film adaptations, interrogating representation across national borders.

This wide-ranging comparative study looks at literary and cinematic texts from Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, Canada, India, the UK, and the US, and the cultural and industrial contexts from which they emerge.

With literary texts ranging from nineteenth-century novels to late-twentieth-century short stories to Indigenous Traditional Stories, this book shows how the medium of cinema has been used variously to update and critique colonial texts, to explore race relations in different national locations, to flatten out cultural difference for the global marketplace, and to assert Indigenous sovereignty.

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