Screening Shakespeare in the twenty-first century / edited by Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burnett, Mark Thornton.

Wray, Ramona, 1971-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

English drama--Film adaptations--Congresses.

English drama.

Film adaptations--History and criticism--Congresses.

Film adaptations.

Genre:

Film adaptations.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

iv, 218 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2006]

Summary:

This bold new collection surveys the rich field of Bardic film representations, from Michael Almereyda's "Hamlet" and the BBC "Shakespea(Re)-Told" season to Michael Radford's "The Merchant of Venice" and Peter Babakitis' "Henry V." The volume offers in-depth analyses of major and obscure productions, touching on advertisements, appropriations, postcolonial reinventions, and mass media citations, arguing that Shakespeare is a magnet for debate over style, literary authority, nationality, ethnicity, gender, and romance. Consideration the Derry Film Initiative "Hamlet", the New Zealand "The Maori Merchant of Venice", and the television documentary "In Search of Shakespeare", this collection innovatively assesses the continuing relevance of Shakespeare in his many local and global screen incarnations.

Contents:

'If I'm right' : Michael Wood's In search of Shakespeare / Richard Dutton

'I see my father' in 'my mind's eye' : surveillance and the filmic Hamlet / Mark Thornton Burnett

Backstage pass(ing) : Stage beauty, Othello and the make-up of race / Richard Burt

The postnostalgic Renaissance : the 'place' of Liverpool in Don Boyd's My kingdom / Courtney Lehmann

Our Shakespeares : British television and the strains of multiculturalism / Susanne Greenhalgh, Robert Shaughnessy

Looking for Shylock : Stephen Greenblatt, Michael Radford and Al Pacino / Samuel Crowl

Speaking Māori Shakespeare : The Maori merchant of Venice and the legacy of colonisation / Catherine Silverstone

'Into a thousand parts divide one man' : dehumanised metafiction and fragmented documentary in Peter Babakitis' Henry V / Sarah Hatchuel

Screening the McShakespeare in post-millennial Shakespeare cinema / Carolyn Jess-Cooke

Shakespeare and the singletons, or, Beatrice meets Bridget Jones : post-feminism, popular culture and 'Shakespea(re)-told' / Ramona Wray.

Notes:

"Early versions of some of these chapters were given as papers at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne meeting of the British Shakespeare Association" -- Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0748623507

9780748623501

0748623515

9780748623518

OCLC:

70399753