Shakespeare, cinema and desire : adaptation and other futures of Shakespeare's language / Simon Ryle, Assistant Professor in Early Modern Literature, Film, and Critical Theory, University of Split, Croatia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ryle, Simon, 1976-

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Language.

Desire in literature.

Genre:

Film adaptations.

Physical Description:

xii, 253 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire explores the desires and the futures of Shakespeare's language and cinematographic adaptations of Shakespeare. Tracing ways that film offers us a rich new understanding of Shakespeare, Simon Ryle highlights issues that are central to both Shakespeare and film: media technologies, narrative territories and flows, mourning and loss, the voice, the body, sexuality and gender. The recirculation of Shakespearean ideas in the critical theory of modernity, especially by figures such as Jacques Lacan, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze, parallels the negotiations of film adaptation. By focusing on the dialogue between Shakespeare and modernity, this study explores how Shakespeare film adaptation raises broad questions concerning the ethical potential of aesthetics. Shakespeare is the source of more movie screenplays than any other writer in history, and negotiations between Shakespeare and developing cinematic technologies have been influential across the history of cinema. This book contributes a much needed analysis of the relation of Shakespeare's language to film form, providing in-depth studies of major Shakespeare adaptations from directors such as Akira Kurosawa, Peter Greenaway, Joseph Mankiewicz, Grigori Kozintsev, Svend Gade, Jean-Luc Godard, and Laurence Olivier. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Shakespeare, cinema and desire

Something from nothing: King Lear and film space

Body space: the sublime Cleopatra

Ghost time: unfolding Hamlet

Re-nascences: The Tempest and new media.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137332059

1137332050

OCLC:

862401004