| Description |
vi, 197 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / James R. Keller and Leslie Stratyner -- 1. The politics of culture : the play's the thing / Patrick Finn -- 2. Have we really been here before? : imitation as originality in Gus Van Sant's My own private Idaho / Andrew Barnaby -- 3. Shakespeare transposed : the British stage on the post-colonial screen / Parmita Kapadia -- 4. Suture, Shakespeare, and race : or, what is our cultural debt to the bard? / Ayanna Thompson -- 5. Cinema in the round : self-reflexivity in Tim Blake Nelson's O / Eric C. Brown -- 6. Sex, lies, videotape - and Othello / R. S. White -- 7. "The time is out of joint" : Withnail and I and historical melancholia / Aaron Kelly and David Salter -- 8. Horatio : the first CSI / Jody Malcolm -- 9. Teen scenes: recognizing Shakespeare in teen film / Ariane M. Balizet -- 10. "An aweful rule" : safe schools, hard canons, and Shakespeare's loose heirs / Melissa J. Jones |
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11. Prospero's pharmacy : Peter Greenaway and the critics play Shakespeare's mimetic game / Dan DeWeese -- 12. Shakespeare film and television derivatives : a bibliography / Jose Ramon Diaz Fernandez |
| Summary |
"This collection of essays addresses the use of Shakespearean narratives, themes, imagery, and characterizations in non-Shakespearean cinema. The essays explore how Shakespeare and his work are manipulated within the popular media and explore topics such as racism, jealousy, misogyny, and nationality."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-189) and index |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Film adaptations.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Filmand video adaptations
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Television adaptations.
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English drama -- Filmand video adaptations
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Film adaptations -- History and criticism.
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English drama -- Television adaptations.
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Film adaptations.
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English drama -- Film adaptations.
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| Genre/Form |
Film adaptations.
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| Author |
Keller, James R., 1960-
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Stratyner, Leslie.
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| LC no. |
2004017517 |
| ISBN |
0786419091 softcover alkaline paper |
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