A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen

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Diana E. Henderson
John Wiley & Sons, 2008 M04 15 - 288 páginas
This Concise Companion presents a multidisciplinary range of approaches to a vast multimedia subject, Shakespeare on screen.
  • Draws on the latest thinking in cultural studies, communications, and comparative media, in dialogue with literary, theatrical and filmic approaches.
  • Organised around themes, such as authorship and collaboration, theatricality, sex and violence, globalization and history.
  • Offers readers a variety of accessible routes into the subject of Shakespeare on screen.
  • Also enables readers to explore fundamental topics in the study of literature and culture more broadly, such as the relationships between elite and popular culture, art and the marketplace, text and image.
  • Includes suggestions for further reading, a bibliography, a filmography, a chronology and a thorough index.
 

Contenido

Introduction Through a Camera Darkly
1
1 Authorship Getting Back to Shakespeare Whose Film is it Anyway?
8
2 Cinema Studies Thou Dost Usurp Authority Beerbohm Tree Reinhardt Olivier Welles and the Politics of Adapting Shakespeare
31
3 Theatricality Stage Screen and Nation Hamlet and the Space of History
54
4 The Artistic Process Learning from Campbell Scotts Hamlet
77
5 Cinematic Performance Spectacular Bodies Acting + Cinema + Shakespeare
96
6 Gender Studies Shakespeare Sex and Violence Negotiating Masculinities in Branaghs Henry V and Taymors Titus
112
7 Globalization Figuring the GlobalHistorical in Filmic Shakespearean Tragedy
133
8 CrossCultural Interpretation Reading Kurosawa Reading Shakespeare
155
9 Popular Culture Will of the People Recent Shakespeare Film Parody and the Politics of Popularization
176
10 Television Studies Brushing Up Shakespeare Relevance and Televisual Form
197
11 Remediation Hamlet among the Pixelvisionaries Video Art Authenticity and Wisdom in Almereydas Hamlet
216
Afterword Unending Revels Visual Pleasure and Compulsory Shakespeare
238
Select Bibliography
250
Index
253
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Diana E. Henderson is Associate Professor of Literature at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of Passion Made Public: Elizabethan Lyric, Gender and Performance (1995) and Collaborations with the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare Across Time and Media (2006).

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