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Spectral Shakespeares : media adaptations in the twenty-first century / Maurizio Calb.

Van Pelt Library PR3093 .C35 2013
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Calbi, Maurizio.
Contributor:
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Series:
Shakespeare reproduced.
Shakespeare reproduced
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Adaptations--History and criticism.
Shakespeare, William.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Film adaptations--History and criticism.
Film adaptations.
Television adaptations--History and criticism.
Television adaptations.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
Mass media and literature.
Genre:
Adaptations.
Physical Description:
236 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Place of Publication:
New York, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Summary:
Spectral Shakespeares is an illuminating exploration of recent, experimental adaptations of Shakespeare on film, TV, and the web. Drawing on adaptation studies and media theory as well as Jacques Derrida's work, this book argues that these adaptations foreground a cluster of self-reflexive "themes" - from incorporation to reiteration, from migration to addiction, from silence to survival - that contribute to the redefinition of adaptation, and Shakespearean adaptation in particular, as an unfinished and interminable process. The "Shakespeare" that emerges from these adaptations is a fragmentary, mediatized, and heterogeneous presence, a spectral Shakespeare that leaves a mark on our contemporary mediascape. Book jacket.
Contents:
Introduction: Shakespeare, spectro-textuality, spectro-mediality
The state of the kitchen: incorporation and "animanomaly" in Scotland, PA and the BBC Shakespeare retold Macbeth
Shakespearean retreats: spectrality, survival, and auto-immunity in Kristian Levring's The king is alive
Reiterating Othello: spectral media and the rhetoric of silence in Alexander Abela's Souli
"This is my home, too": migration, spectrality, and hospitality in Roberta Torre's Sud side stori
"Shakespeare in the extreme": ghosts and remediation in Alexander Fodor's Hamlet
"Restless ecstasy": addiction, reiteration, and mediality in Klaus Knoesel's Rave Macbeth
"He speaks or rather he tweets": the specter of the "original," media, and "media-crossed" love in Such tweet sorrow.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780230338753
0230338755
OCLC:
852957134

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