Ophelia Through Time

Reimaginings in Art and Film

Carolina Sanabria (Autor)

Matthew Hilborn (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

265 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-1502-0 (ISBN)

Infos

For centuries, interest in Shakespeare's Hamlet has prioritised its brooding, melancholy prince. Yet, over time, the enigmatic Ophelia, his tragic love interest, has risen to prominence in painting, film, television, and beyond, focused especially on her madness and death – conspicuously off-stage in the drama itself. Analysing her rebirth, resurrection, and ghostly afterlives in 'straight' adaptations as well as narratives far removed from the Bard's play, this study offers an innovative cross-media analysis of Ophelia's evolving representation. Tracing her journey from marginal character to symbol of increasing yet ambivalent transcultural importance, it identifies a series of recurring tropes that re-write her female subjectivity in surprising and fascinating ways. From page to stage, and scene to screen, Ophelia's voice is by turns amplified, ventriloquised, mediated, and silenced, reshaped by the delicate dialogue between text and image. This book is a captivating exploration of one of Shakespeare's most evocative figures and her enduring impact on visual storytelling.

Autor

Carolina Sanabria (PhD, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain) is Professor of Audiovisual Communication at the University of Costa Rica, where she specialises in film and visual culture. Her scholarly work comprises numerous journal articles and book chapters, and she has authored several books including Bigas Luna: El ojo voraz [Bigas Luna: The Ravenous Eye] (2010), Contemplación de lo íntimo [Contemplation of the Intimate] (2011), and Ofelia fementida (2019), of which this monograph is an updated, redrafted translation.Matthew Hilborn (PhD, Durham University, UK) is Government of Ireland Research Fellow in Film Studies at University College Dublin. An experienced translator and researcher of Spanish and British cinema, from 2022-24 he was Research Associate on "Screen Encounters with Britain" (AHRC, King's College London), investigating transnational 'soft power' through screen media. His first monograph Film Comedy and Spain: Humour, Genre and the Nation 1970-2020 is published in 2025.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.05.2025
• Verlagsort: Newcastle upon Tyne
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 148 x 212 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• ISBN-10: 1-0364-1502-3 / 1036415023
• ISBN-13: 978-1-0364-1502-0 / 9781036415020
• Zustand: Neuware