A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen
Published on 16. December 2005
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-4051-1510-0 (ISBN)
Description
This Concise Companion presents a multidisciplinary range of approaches to a vast multimedia subject, Shakespeare on screen. The book's contributors use the latest thinking from cultural studies, communications, and comparative media, in dialogue with literary, theatrical, and filmic approaches, in order to push the field forward. They consider Shakespeare on screen not only as a set of finished products but also as a process. For this reason, the volume is organized around topics such as authorship and collaboration, theatricality, sex and violence, globalization, and history. The Concise Companion offers readers a variety of accessible routes into Shakespeare on screen and supports further study of the subject through the inclusion of a bibliography, a chronological chart, and a thorough index. At the same time, it serves as a focal point for exploring fundamental issues in the study of literature and culture more broadly, such as the relationships between elite and popular culture, art and the marketplace, text, image, and performance.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
upper level students, researchers and faculty in Shakespeare studies
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-1510-0 (9781405115100)
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Diana E. Henderson
A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen
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05/2008
Wiley-Blackwell
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Person
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).
Content
AcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsBiographical noteChronologyIntroduction: Through a Camera, Darkly: Diana E. Henderson (MIT)1. Authorship: Getting Back to Shakespeare: Whose Film is it anyway? Elsie Walker (Salisbury University, Maryland)2. Cinema Studies: 'Thou dost usurp authority': Beerbohm Tree, Reinhardt, Olivier, Welles, and the Politics of Adapting Shakespeare: Anthony R. Guneratne (Florida Atlantic University)3. Theatricality: Stage, screen and nation: Hamlet and the space of history: Robert Shaughnessy (University of Kent)4. The Artistic Process: Learning from Campbell Scott's Hamlet: Diana E. Henderson (MIT)5. Cinematic Performance: Spectacular Bodies: Acting + Cinema + Shakespeare: Barbara Hodgdon (University of Michigan)6. Gender Studies: Shakespeare, Sex and Violence: Negotiating Masculinities in Branagh's Henry V and Taymor's Titus: Pascale Aebischer (University of Exeter)7. Globalization: Figuring the Global/Historical in Filmic Shakespearean Tragedy: Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen's University, Belfast)8. Cross-Cultural Interpretation: Reading Kurosawa Reading Shakespeare: Anthony Dawson (University of British Columbia)9. Popular Culture: Will of the People: Recent Shakespeare Film Parody and the Politics of Popularization: Douglas Lanier (University of New Hampshire)10. Television: Brushing Up Shakespeare: Relevance and Televisual Form: Roberta E. Pearson (University of Nottingham ) and William Uricchio (MIT and Utrecht University)11. Remediation: Hamlet among the Pixelvisionaries: Video Art, Authenticity and 'Wisdom' in Almereyda's Hamlet: Peter S. Donaldson (MIT)Afterword: Unending Revels: Visual Pleasure and Compulsory Shakespeare: Kathleen McLuskie (University of Birmingham Shakespeare Institute at Stratford upon Avon)Select BibliographyIndex