Almost Shakespeare: Reinventing His Works for Cinema and TelevisionJames R. Keller, Leslie Stratyner McFarland, 4 nov 2014 - 203 pagina's In the past two decades, Othello has tried out for the basketball team, Macbeth has taken over a fast food joint and King Lear has moved to an Iowa farm--Shakespeare is everywhere in popular culture. This collection of essays addresses the use of Shakespearean narratives, themes, imagery and characterizations in non-Shakespearian cinema. The essays explore how Shakespeare and his work are manipulated within the popular media and explore topics such as racism, jealousy, misogyny and nationality. The submissions concentrate on film and television programs that are adaptations of Shakespearean plays, including My Own Private Idaho, CSI-Miami, A Thousand Acres, Prospero's Books, O, 10 Things I Hate About You, Withnail and I, Get Over It, and The West Wing. Each chapter includes notes and a list of works cited. A full bibliography completes the work; it is divided into bibliographies and filmographies, general studies and essays, derivatives based on a single play, derivatives based on several, and derivatives based on Shakespeare as a character. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here. |
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... contemporary veneration of originality . These literary appropriations further confound the effort to trace Shakespeare's legacy and influence . When we see a manifestation of Shakespeare's work in film , are we seeing the Bard , or are ...
... contemporary culture . The result of these labors is a " discordia concors , " a seventeenth century con- ceit , two incongruous ideas hammered into a poetic harmony . The same denizens of the film industry are engaged in an additional ...
... contemporary television program- ming . Two of the chapters within this volume trace the influence of Shake- speare's history plays . In " The Politics of Culture : The Play's the Thing , " Patrick Finn addresses the impact of ...
... contemporary high school film based on Othello . The author argues that the film's " near obses- sion " with open vowels and circularity reveals an ambivalent relationship with Shakespeare , both reinforcing and subverting the ...
... contemporary social message . Similarly , in " An Aweful Rule : Safe Schools , Hard Canons , and Shakespeare's Loose Heirs , " Melissa Jones relates the teen film 10 Things I Hate About You to the social phenomenon that she terms a ...
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The Politics of Culture The Plays the Thing | 7 |
Imitation as Originality in Gus Van Sants My Own Private Idaho | 22 |
Shakespeare Transposed The British Stage on the PostColonial Screen | 42 |
Suture Shakespeare and Race Or What Is Our Cultural Debt to the Bard? | 57 |
Cinema in the Round SelfReflexivity in Tim Blake Nelsons O | 73 |
Sex Lies Videotape and Othello | 86 |
The Time Is Out of Joint Withnail and I and Historical Melancholia | 99 |
Horatio The First CSI | 113 |
Teen Scenes Recognizing Shakespeare in Teen Film | 122 |
An Aweful Rule Safe Schools Hard Canons and Shakespeares Loose Heirs | 137 |
Prosperous Pharmacy Peter Greenaway and the Critics Play Shakespeares Mimetic Game | 155 |
Shakespeare Film and Television Derivatives A Bibliography | 169 |
Contributors | 190 |
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Almost Shakespeare: Reinventing His Works for Cinema and Television James R. Keller,Leslie Stratyner Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2004 |