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Almost Shakespeare : Reinventing His Works For Cinema And Television

  • Almost Shakespeare : Reinventing His Works For Cinema And Television

  • Attribution

    edited by James R. Keller and Leslie Stratyner

  • Publication Details

    Book, McFarland & Co, 2004

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      (UPPER LEVEL)  PR3093 .A46 2004         AVAILABLE

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    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. 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. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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    • "This collection of essays addresses the use of Shakespearean narratives, themes, imagery, and characterizations in non-Shakespearean 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."–BOOK JACKET

  • Contents

    • Introduction / James R. Keller and Leslie Stratyner
    • 1. The politics of culture : the play’s the thing / Patrick Finn
    • 2. Have we really been here before? : imitation as originality in Gus Van Sant’s My own private Idaho / Andrew Barnaby
    • 3. Shakespeare transposed : the British stage on the post-colonial screen / Parmita Kapadia
    • 4. Suture, Shakespeare, and race : or, what is our cultural debt to the bard? / Ayanna Thompson
    • 5. Cinema in the round : self-reflexivity in Tim Blake Nelson’s O / Eric C. Brown
    • 6. Sex, lies, videotape - and Othello / R. S. White
    • 7. "The time is out of joint" : Withnail and I and historical melancholia / Aaron Kelly and David Salter
    • 8. Horatio : the first CSI / Jody Malcolm
    • 9. Teen scenes: recognizing Shakespeare in teen film / Ariane M. Balizet
    • 10. "An aweful rule" : safe schools, hard canons, and Shakespeare’s loose heirs / Melissa J. Jones - - 11. Prospero’s pharmacy : Peter Greenaway and the critics play Shakespeare’s mimetic game / Dan DeWeese
    • 12. Shakespeare film and television derivatives : a bibliography / Jose Ramon Diaz Fernandez

  • ISBN

    • 0786419091

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