Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear
King Lear
Published on 12. August 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
278 pages
978-1-108-44689-1 (ISBN)
Description
The third volume in the re-launched series Shakespeare on Screen is devoted to film versions and adaptations of King Lear. Bringing together an international group of scholars, the chapters provide new insights and perspectives on what constitutes 'Learness' in a range of films, TV productions, translations, free retellings and appropriations from around the world. Taking 'screen' in its broader sense, it also covers digital material such as video archives, internet movies and YouTube videos. The volume features an invaluable film-bibliography and accompanying online resources include additional essays and an expanded version of the film-bibliography.
Reviews / Votes
'... this volume provides a perfect foundation from which to disperse and dislocate Lear's screen presence ever further.' Peter Kirwan, Cahiers Elisabethains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies 'The empathy that pervades the latest addition to the excellent Shakespeare on Screen series is at times overwhelming ... this volume provides a perfect foundation from which to disperse and dislocate Lear's screen presence ever further.' Peter Kirwan, The Shakespeare Newsletter 'The collection contains more richly suggestive essays than I have space to mention; it will be indispensable to students of King Lear. The editors' calculated broad approach creates a collection that is more than the sum of its parts, and which is animated by a sense of conscience and compassion.' Sally Barnden, Shakespeare BulletinMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 13 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
407 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-44689-1 (9781108446891)
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Victoria Bladen | Sarah Hatchuel | Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin
Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear
King Lear
Book
09/2019
Cambridge University Press
€122.80
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Persons
Content
1. Introduction: dis-locating King Lear on screen Victoria Bladen, Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin; Part I. Surviving Lear: Revisiting the Canon: 2. Lear's Fool on film: Peter Brook, Grigori Kozintsev, Akira Kurosawa Samuel Crowl; 3. Wicked humans and weeping Buddhas: (post)humanism and Hell in Kurosawa's Ran Melissa Croteau; Part II. Lear en abyme: Metatheater and the Screen: 4. Filming metatheater: the 'Dover cliff' scene on screen Sarah Hatchuel; 5. New ways of looking at Lear: changing relationships between theatre, screen and audience in live broadcasts of King Lear (2011-2016) Rachael Nicholas; 6. Re-shaping old course in a country new: producing nation, culture and King Lear in Slings and Arrows Lois Leveen; Part III. The Genres of Lear: 7. Negotiating authorship, genre and race in King of Texas (2002) Pierre Kapitaniak; 8. Romancing King Lear: Hobson's Choice, Life Goes On and beyond Diana E. Henderson; 9. 'Easy Lear': Harry and Tonto and the American road movie Douglas M. Lanier; Part IV. Lear on the Loose: Migrations and Appropriations of Lear: 10. Relocating Jewish culture in The Yiddish King Lear (1934) Jacek Fabiszak; 11. The Trump effect: exceptionalism, global capitalism and the war on women in early twenty-first century films of King Lear Courtney Lehmann; 12. Looking for Lear in The Eye of the Storm Victoria Bladen; 13. Between political drama and soap opera: appropriations of King Lear in US television series Boss and Empire Sylvaine Bataille and Anais Pauchet; 14. Afterword: Godard's King Lear Peter Holland; 15. King Lear on screen: select film-bibliography Jose Ramon Diaz Fernandez.