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'Hamlet' and world cinema / Mark Thornton Burnett.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR2807 .B87 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burnett, Mark Thornton, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama (Tragedy).
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet--Film adaptations.
- Shakespeare, William.
- English drama (Tragedy)--Film adaptations.
- Film adaptations--History and criticism.
- Film adaptations.
- Hamlet (Shakespeare, William).
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Film adaptations.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- Hamlet' and World Cinema reveals a rich history of cinematic production extending across the globe. Making a case for Hamlet as the world's most frequently filmed text, and using specially commissioned interviews with cast, directors and screenwriters, it discusses films from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. The book argues that the play has been taken up by filmmakers world-wide to allegorise the energies, instabilities, traumas and expectations that have defined the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In so doing, it rejects the Anglophone focus which has dominated criticism up to now and explores instead the multiple constituencies that have claimed Shakespeare's most celebrated work as their own. 'Hamlet' and World Cinema uncovers a vital part of the adaptation story. This book facilitates a fresh understanding of Shakespeare's cinematic significance and newly highlights Hamlet's political and aesthetic instrumentality in a vast range of local and global contexts.
- Contents:
- Hamlet, cinema and the histories of Western Europe
- Thematising place : Hamlet, cinema and Africa
- Hamlet and the moment of Brazilian cinema
- Pairing the cinematic prince : Hamlet, China and Japan
- Hamlet and Indian cinemas : regional paradigms
- Gendering borders : Hamlet and the cinemas of Turkey and Iran
- Materialising Hamlet in the cinemas of Russia, Central and Eastern Europe.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references, filmography, (pages 256-283) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781107135505
- 1107135508
- OCLC:
- 1081177836
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