| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 244 pages) |
| Contents |
Foreword / Peter Holland -- Introduction / Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray -- 1. The Book on the Screen: Shakespeare Films and Textual Culture / Andrew Murphy -- 2. The Postmodern Theatre of Paul Mazursky's Tempest / Douglas Bruster -- 3. Camp Richard III and the Burdens of (Stage/Film) History / Stephen M. Buhler -- 4. Shakespeare Meets The Godfather: The Postmodern Populism of Al Pacino's Looking for Richard / Neil Sinyard -- 5. Urban Dystopias: Re-approaching Christine Edzard's As You Like It / Amelia Marriette -- 6. Impressions of Fantasy: Adrian Noble's A Midsummer Night's Dream / Mark Thornton Burnett -- 7. 'The Way the World is Now': Love in the Troma Zone / Margaret Jane Kidnie -- 8. 'These Violent Delights have Violent Ends': Baz Luhrmann's Millennial Shakespeare / James N. Loehlin -- 9. 'Either for tragedy, comedy': Attitudes of Hamlet in Kenneth Branagh's In the Bleak Midwinter and Hamlet / Emma Smith |
| Summary |
Over the course of the 1990s, Shakespeare films established themselves as big business. The essays in this volume examine the major films of the decade, including Hamlet, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, Richard III, Shakespeare in Love and William Shakespeare's 'Romeo + Juliet', and argue that cinematic interpretations of Shakespeare are key instruments with which western culture confronts the anxieties attendant upon the transition from one century to another. These and other screen productions, the contributors maintain, engage with some of the most pressing concerns of the present, apocalyptic condition - familial crisis, social estrangements, urban blight, cultural hybridity, literary authority, the role of reading and writing, the impact of technology and the end of history. Attention to less well-known Shakespeare films, and an exclusive retrospective interview with Kenneth Branagh, make this the most current and comprehensive assessment of Shakespeare in the cinema to date |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Film adaptations.
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| SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
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Shakespeare, William. swd |
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English drama -- Film adaptations
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Shakespeare studies & criticism -- English.
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Film theory & criticism -- English.
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Popular culture -- English.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
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DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
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Literature.
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English drama
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Drama
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Film
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Toneelstukken.
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Verfilmingen.
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| Genre/Form |
Film adaptations
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Film adaptations.
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Adaptations cinématographiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Burnett, Mark Thornton.
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Wray, Ramona, 1971-
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Holland, Peter, 1951-
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| ISBN |
9780230286795 |
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0230286798 |
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1283180154 |
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9781283180153 |
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0333776631 |
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9780333776636 |
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