Overview
Following on from Shakespeare, The Movie, this volume brings together an invaluable new collection of essays on cinematic Shakespeares in the 1990s and beyond. Shakespeare, The Movie II covers: the impact of post-colonialism, globalization and digital film on recent Shakespeare adaptations adaptations in Europe and the Asian diaspora, as well as American and British films film, television, video and DVD adaptations including Almereyda's Hamlet, Animated Tales, Baz Luhrmann, Kenneth Branagh and 1990s' Macbeths. It also offers insight into issues such as the interplay between originals and adaptations, the appropriations of popular culture, the question of spectatorship and the impact of popularization on the canonical status of ""the Bard"". Shakespeare, The Movie II combines twelve exciting new essays from leading scholars with three cornerstone essays from the earlier collection. It is quite simply a must-read for any student of Shakespeare, film, media or cultural studies. Michael Anderegg, Richard Burt, Thomas Cartelli, Peter S. Donaldson, Katherine Eggert, Donald Hedrick, Diana Henderson, Barbara Hodgdon, Douglas Lanier, Courtney Lehmann, James Loehlin, Laurie Osborne
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Author: Richard Burt , Lynda E. Boose
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Edition: 2nd
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.810kg
ISBN: 9780415282987
ISBN 10: 0415282985
Pages: 356
Publication Date: 14 August 2003
Audience:
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print 
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Table of Contents
Richard Burt and Lynda E. Boose, 'Introduction: Shakespeare, the Movie, the Sequel (Editors Cut): Polarizing the Plays on Film, Television and DVD.' 1. Richard Burt, 'Shakespeare Goes Hollywood, II Glo-cali-zation, Race, and the Small Screens of Post-Popular Culture 2. Katherine Rowe, 'Remember me': Technologies of Memory in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet.' 3. Michael Anderegg, 'It's James Dean meets the Pirate's Daughter: Some Uses and Abuses of Shakespeare in 1990s Films of Romeo and Juliet.' 4. Katherine Eggert, 'Sure Can Sing and Dance : Minstrelsy, the Star System , and the Post-postcoloniality of Kenneth Branagh's Love's Labours Lost and Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night.' 5. Barbara Hodgdon, 'Race-ing Othello, Re-Engendering White-Out, II.' 6. Peter S. Donaldson, 'Shakespeare in the Age of Post-Mechanical Reproduction: Sexual and electronic magic in Prospero's Books.' 7. Diana Hemderson, 'A Shrew for the Times Revisited.' 8. Laurie Osborne, 'Mixing Media and Animating Shakespeare.' 9. Douglas Lanier, 'Nostalgia and Theatricallity: The Fate of the Shakespearean Stage in the Midsummer Nights Dreams of Hoffman, Noble, and Edzard.' 10. James Loehin, Top of the World, Ma: Richard III and cinematic convention.' 11. Thomas Cartelli, 'Shakespeare and the Street: Looking for Richard, The Street King and the Common Understanding.' 12. Sue Wiseman, 'The Family Tree Motel: Subliming Shakespeare in My Own Private Idaho' 13. Donald Hedrick, 'War Is Mud: Branagh's Dirty Harry V and the Types of Political Ambiguity.' 14. Courtney Lehmann, 'Out Damned Scot: Dislocating Macbeth in Transnational Film and Media Culture.' 15. Amy Scott-Douglas, 'Dogme Shakespeare 95: European Cinema, Anti-Hollywood Sentiment, and the Bard.' 16. Richard Burt, 'Shakespeare and Asia in post-Disaporic Cinemas: Spin-offs and Citations of the Plays from Bollywood to Hollywood.'
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Richard Burt is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Lynda E. Boose is Professor of English and Women's Studies at Dartmouth College.
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