Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century.
Title:
Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century.
Author:
Wray, Ramona.
ISBN:
9780748630080
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (225 pages)
Contents:
COVER -- COPYRIGHT -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 'If I'm right': Michael Wood's In Search of Shakespeare -- 2 'I see my father' in 'my mind's eye': Surveillance and the Filmic Hamlet -- 3 Backstage Pass(ing): Stage Beauty, Othello and the Make-up of Race -- 4 The Postnostalgic Renaissance: The 'Place' of Liverpool in Don Boyd's My Kingdom -- 5 Our Shakespeares: British Television and the Strains of Multiculturalism -- 6 Looking for Shylock: Stephen Greenblatt, Michael Radford and Al Pacino -- 7 Speaking Maori Shakespeare: The Maori Merchant of Venice and the Legacy of Colonisation -- 8 'Into a thousand parts divide one man': Dehumanised Metafiction and Fragmented Documentary in Peter Babakitis' Henry V -- 9 Screening the McShakespeare in Post-Millennial Shakespeare Cinema -- 10 Shakespeare and the Singletons, or, Beatrice Meets Bridget Jones: Post-Feminism, Popular Culture and 'Shakespea(Re)-Told' -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
This bold new collection offers an innovative discussion of Shakespeare on screen after the millennium. Cutting-edge, and fully up-to-date, it surveys the rich field of Bardic film representations, from Almereydaâs Hamlet to the BBC âShakespea(Re)-Toldâ season, from Radfordâs The Merchant of Venice to Babakitisâ Henry V.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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