Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen

Diana E. Henderson (Herausgeber)

Software / Digital Media

288 Seiten

2008
Wiley-Blackwell (Hersteller)
9780470757659 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

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).

Inhalt

Acknowledgements. Notes on Contributors. Bibliographical Note. Chronology. Introduction: Through a Camera, Darkly (Diana E. Henderson). 1. Authorship: Getting Back to Shakespeare: Whose Film is it Anyway (Elsie Walker). 2. Cinema Studies: "Thou Dost Usurp Authority": Beerbohm Tree, Reinhardt, Olivier, Welles, and the Politics of Adapting Shakespeare (Anthony R. Guneratne). 3. Theatricality: Stage, Screen, and Nation: Hamlet and the Space of History (Robert Shaughnessy). 4. The Artistic Process: Learning from Campbell Scott's Hamlet (Diana E. Henderson). 5. Cinematic Performance: Spectacular Bodies: Acting + Cinema + Shakespeare (Barbara Hodgdon). 6. Gender Studies: Shakespeare, Sex, and Violence: Negotiating Masculinities in Branagh's Henry V and Taymor's Titus (Pascale Aebischer). 7. Globalization: Figuring the Global/Historical in Filmic Shakespearean Tragedy (Mark Thornton Burnett). 8. Cross-Cultural Interpretation: reading Kurosawa Reading Shakespeare(Anthony Dawson). 9. Popular Culture: Will of the People: Recent Shakespeare Film Parody and the Politics of Popularization (Douglas Lanier). 10. Television Studies: Brushing Up Shakespeare: Relevance and Televise Form (Roberta E. Pearson and William Uricchio). 11. Remediation: Hamlet among the Pixelvisionaries: Video Art, Authenticity, and "Wisdom" in Almereyda's Hamlet (Peter S. Donaldson). Afterword: Unending Revels: Visual Pleasure and Compulsory Shakespeare (Kathleen McLuskie). Select Bibliography. Index.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.1.2008
• Verlagsort: Hoboken
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 250 mm
• Gewicht: 666 g
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• ISBN-13: 9780470757659 / 9780470757659
• Zustand: Neuware