| Description |
xi, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : editors' cut / Richard Burt and Lynda E. Boose -- 1. Shakespeare, "Glo-cali-zation," race, and the small screens of post-popular culture / Richard Burt -- 2. "Remember me" : technologies of memory in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet / Katherine Rowe -- 3. James Dean meets the pirate's daughter : passion and parody in William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet and Shakespeare in love / Michael Anderegg -- 4. Sure can sing and dance : minstrelsy, the star system, and the post-postcoloniality of Kenneth Branagh's Love's labour's lost and Trevor Nunn's Twelfth night / Katherine Eggert -- 5. Race-ing Othello, re-engendering white-out, II / Barbara Hodgdon -- 6. Shakespeare in the age of post-mechanical reproduction : sexual and electronic magic in Prospero's books / Peter S. Donaldson -- 7. A Shrew for the times, revisited / Diana E. Henderson -- 8. Mixing media and animating Shakespeare tales / Laurie Osborne -- 9. Nostalgia and theatricality : the fate of the Shakespearean stage in the Midsummer night's dreams of Hoffman, Noble, and Edzard / Douglas Lanier -- 10. "Top of the world, ma" : Richard III and cinematic convention / James N. Loehlin -- 11. Shakespeare and the street : Pacino's Looking for Richard, Bedford's Street king, and the common understanding / Thomas Cartelli -- 12. The family tree motel : subliming Shakespeare in My own private Idaho / Susan Wiseman -- 13. War is mud : Branagh's Dirty Harry V and the types of political ambiguity / Donald K. Hedrick -- 14. Out damned Scot : dislocating Macbeth in transnational film and media culture / Courtney Lehmann -- 15. Dogme Shakespeare 95 : European cinema, anti-Hollywood sentiment, and the Bard / Amy Scott-Douglass -- 16. Shakespeare and Asia in postdiasporic cinemas : spin-offs and citations of the plays from Bollywood to Hollywood / Richard Burt |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Film adaptations.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Television adaptations.
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English drama -- Filmand video adaptations
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Film adaptations.
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Popular culture.
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| Author |
Boose, Lynda E., 1943-
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Burt, Richard, 1954-
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| LC no. |
2002155445 |
| ISBN |
0415282985 (hbk.: alk. paper) |
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0415282993 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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