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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burnett, Mark Thornton.

Wray, Ramona, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Film adaptations--Congresses.

English drama.

Film adaptations--History and criticism--Congresses.

Film adaptations.

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

Shakespeare, William.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This bold new collection offers an innovative discussion of Shakespeare on screen after the millennium. Cutting-edge, and fully up-to-date, it surveys the rich field of Bardic film representations, from Michael Almereyda's Hamlet to the BBC 'Shakespea(Re)-Told' season, from Michael Radford's The Merchant of Venice to Peter Babakitis' Henry V. In addition to offering in-depth analyses of all the major productions, Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century includes reflections upon the less well-known filmic 'Shakespeares', which encompass cinema advertisements, appropriations,

Contents:

COVER; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 'If I'm right': Michael Wood's In Search of Shakespeare; 2 'I see my father' in 'my mind's eye': Surveillance and the Filmic Hamlet; 3 Backstage Pass(ing): Stage Beauty, Othello and the Make-up of Race; 4 The Postnostalgic Renaissance: The 'Place' of Liverpool in Don Boyd's My Kingdom; 5 Our Shakespeares: British Television and the Strains of Multiculturalism; 6 Looking for Shylock: Stephen Greenblatt, Michael Radford and Al Pacino; 7 Speaking Maori Shakespeare: The Maori Merchant of Venice and the Legacy of Colonisation

8 'Into a thousand parts divide one man': Dehumanised Metafiction and Fragmented Documentary in Peter Babakitis' Henry V9 Screening the McShakespeare in Post-Millennial Shakespeare Cinema; 10 Shakespeare and the Singletons, or, Beatrice Meets Bridget Jones: Post-Feminism, Popular Culture and 'Shakespea(Re)-Told'; Notes on Contributors; Index

Notes:

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

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786610643233

9781280643231

1280643234

9780748630080

0748630082

OCLC:

476021290