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Shakespeare, the movie, II : popularizing the plays on film, TV, video, and DVD / edited by Richard Burt and Lynda E. Boose.
Van Pelt Library PR3093 .S5452 2003
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LIBRA PR3093 .S5452 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Film adaptations.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- English drama--Film adaptations.
- English drama.
- Film adaptations.
- Popular culture.
- Genre:
- Film adaptations.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
- Summary:
- Following on from the phenomenally successful Shakespeare, The Movie, this volume brings together an invaluable new collection of essays on cinematic Shakespeares in the 1990s and beyond. Shakespeare, The Movie, II.
- Combining three key essays from the earlier collection with exciting new work from leading contributors, Shakespeare, The Movie, II offers sixteen fascinating essays. It is quite simply a must-read for any student of Shakespeare, film, media, or cultural studies.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Editors' cut / Richard Burt, Lynda E. Boose 1
- 1 Shakespeare, "Glo-cali-zation," race, and the small screens of post-popular culture / Richard Burt 14
- 2 "Remember me": technologies of memory in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet / Katherine Rowe 37
- 3 James Dean meets the pirate's daughter: passion and parody in William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet and Shakespeare in Love / Michael Anderegg 56
- 4 Sure can sing and dance: minstrelsy, the star system, and the post-postcoloniality of Kenneth Branagh's Love's Labour's Lost and Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night / Katherine Eggert 72
- 5 Race-ing Othello, re-engendering white-out, II / Barbara Hodgdon 89
- 6 Shakespeare in the age of post-mechanical reproduction: sexual and electronic magic in Prospero's Books / Peter S. Donaldson 105
- 7 A Shrew for the times, revisited / Diana E. Henderson 120
- 8 Mixing media and animating Shakespeare tales / Laurie Osborne 140
- 9 Nostalgia and theatricality: the fate of the Shakespearean stage in the Midsummer Night's Dreams of Hoffman, Noble, and Edzard / Douglas Lanier 154
- 10 "Top of the world, ma": Richard III and cinematic convention / James N. Loehlin 173
- 11 Shakespeare and the street: Pacino's Looking for Richard, Bedford's Street King, and the common understanding / Thomas Cartelli 186
- 12 The family tree motel: subliming Shakespeare in My Own Private Idaho / Susan Wiseman 200
- 13 War is mud: Branagh's Dirty Harry V and the types of political ambiguity / Donald K. Hedrick 213
- 14 Out damned Scot: dislocating Macbeth in transnational film and media culture / Courtney Lehmann 231
- 15 Dogme Shakespeare 95: European cinema, anti-Hollywood sentiment, and the Bard / Amy Scott-Douglass 252
- 16 Shakespeare and Asia in postdiasporic cinemas: spin-offs and citations of the plays from Bollywood to Hollywood / Richard Burt 265.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-322), filmography (pages 323-328) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0415282985
- 0415282993
- OCLC:
- 51242179
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