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- Title
This Is How I Win: Uncut Gems, Colonial Violence, and the Victorian Adventure Story.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the 2019 crime thriller film "Uncut Gems," directed by by Josh and Benny Safdie and starring Adam Sandler. The author explores the film through the lens of Victorian adventure stories, examines its use of imperialist ideology and colonial violence, and compares the film to H. Rider Haggard's "King Solomon's Mines."
- Subjects
UNCUT Gems (Film); CRIME films; IMPERIALISM &; culture; 19TH century English literature; BRITISH adventure stories; SAFDIE, Josh, 1984-; SAFDIE, Benny, 1986-; KING Solomon's Mines (Book : Haggard)
- Publication
Journal of Popular Culture, 2022, Vol 55, Issue 2, p392
- ISSN
1540-5931
- Publication type
Film/Television Criticism
- DOI
10.1111/jpcu.13116