Spectacular Shakespeare : critical theory and popular cinema / edited by Courtney Lehmann and Lisa S. Starks.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lehmann, Courtney, 1969-

Starks-Estes, Lisa S., 1960-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Film adaptations.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Motion pictures--History--Theory, etc.

Motion pictures.

History.

English drama--Film adaptations.

English drama.

Film adaptations.

Genre:

Film adaptations.

Physical Description:

243 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2002]

Contents:

All our Othello: black monsters and white masks on the American screen / Marguerite Hailey Rippy

"How very like the home life of our own dear queen": Ian McKellen's Richard III / Lisa Hopkins

(Un)doing the book "without Verona walls": a view from the receiving end of Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet / Alfredo Michel Modenessi

Cutting up characters: the erotic politics of Trevor Nunn's Twelfth night / Laurie Osborne

The marriage of Shakespeare and Hollywood: Kenneth Branagh's Much ado about nothing / Samuel Crowl

Shakespeare in love: romancing the author, mastering the body / Courtney Lehmann

"Art thou base, common, and popular?": The cultural politics of Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet / Douglas Lanier

From the cinema to the classroom: Hollywood teaches Hamlet / Elizabeth A. Deitchman

The film's the thing: using Shakespearean film in the classroom / Annalisa Castaldo

Afterword: Te(e)n things I hate about Girlene Shakesploitation flicks in the late 1990's, or not-so-fast times at Shakespeare high / Richard Burt.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0838639100

OCLC:

46565105