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Author:   Melissa Croteau ,  Carolyn Jess-Cooke
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.336kg
ISBN:  

9780786433926

ISBN 10:   0786433922
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   23 April 2009
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments      Introduction: Beginning at the Ends MELISSA CROTEAU      1. The “great doom’s image”: Apocalyptic Trajectories in Contemporary Shakespearean Filmmaking RAMONA WRAY      2. Apocalyptic Paternalism, Family Values, and the War of the Cinemas; or, How Shakespeare Became Posthuman COURTNEY LEHMANN      3. Liberty’s Taken, or How “captive women may be cleansed and used”: Julie Taymor’s Titus and 9/11 KIM FEDDERSON and J. MICHAEL RICHARDSON      4. Post-Apocalyptic Spaces in Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet RICHARD VELA      5. Celluloid Revelations: Millennial Culture and Dialogic “Pastiche” in Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet (2000) MELISSA CROTEAU      6. The Revenger’s Tragedy in 2002: Alex Cox’s Punk Apocalypse GRETCHEN E. MINTON      7. The Plague in Filmed Versions of Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night CARL JAMES GRINDLEY      8. The Politics of Apocalypse: Interrogating Conversion in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ and Michael Radford’s The Merchant of Venice ADRIAN STREETE      9. Disney’s “War Efforts”: The Lion King and Education for Death; or, Shakespeare Made Easy for Your Apocalyptic Convenience ALFREDO MICHEL MODENESSI      10. Four Funerals and a Bedding: Freud and the Post-Apocalyptic Apocalypse of Jean-Luc Godard’s King Lear ANTHONY R. GUNERATNE      11. “The Promised End” of Cinema: Portraits of Apocalypse in Post-Millennial Shakespearean Film CAROLYN JESS-COOKE      About the Contributors      Index     

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Melissa Croteau is an associate professor of literature and film studies at California Baptist University. Carolyn Jess-Cooke is a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Northumbria. She lives in Tyne and Wear, England.

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