Almost Shakespeare : reinventing his works for cinema and television / edited by James R. Keller and Leslie Stratyner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Keller, James R., 1960-

Stratyner, Leslie.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

English drama--Film adaptations.

English drama.

Film adaptations.

Genre:

Film adaptations.

Physical Description:

vi, 197 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2004]

Summary:

In the past two decades, Othello has tried out for the basketball team, Macbeth has taken over a fast food joint, and King Lear has moved to an Iowa farm-Shakespeare is everywhere in popular culture. 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. The chapters concentrate on film and television programs that are adaptations of Shakespearean plays, including My Own Private Idaho, CSI: Miami, A Thousand Acres, Prospero's Books, O, 10 Things I Hate About You, Withnail and I, Get Over It, and The West Wing. The final chapter is a bibliography of writings on Shakespeare derivatives.

Contents:

Introduction / James R. Keller and Leslie Stratyner

The politics of culture : the play's the thing / Patrick Finn

Imitation as originality in Gus van Sant's My own private Idaho / Andrew Barnaby

Shakespeare transposed : the British stage on the post-colonial screen / Parmita Kapadia

Suture, Shakespeare, and race, or, What is our cultural debt to the bard? / Ayanna Thompson

Cinema in the round : self-reflexivity in Tim Blake Nelson's O / Eric C. Brown

Sex, lies, videotape

and Othello / R.S. White

The time is out of joint : Withnail and I and historical melancholia / Aaron Kelly and David Salter

Horatio : the first CSI / Jody Malcolm

Teen scenes : recognizing Shakespeare in teen film / Ariane M. Balizet

An aweful rule : safe schools, hard canons, and Shakespeare's loose heirs / Melissa J. Jones

Prospero's pharmacy : Peter Greenaway and the critics play Shakespeare's mimetic game / Dan DeWeese

Shakespeare film and television derivatives : a bibliography / José Ramón Díaz Fernández.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

ISBN:

0786419091

OCLC:

56064764