Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet
Published on 29. November 2023
300 pages
978-1-009-20094-3 (ISBN)
Description
From canonical movies to web series, this volume provides fresh insights into the myriad forms of Romeo and Juliet on screen around the world. Ranging far beyond the Anglo-American sphere, the international cast of contributors explore translations, adaptations, free re-tellings and appropriations from India, France, Italy and Japan and demonstrate the constant evolution of technologies in the production, reception and dissemination of 'Shakespeare on screen'. The volume is complemented by helpful online essays and an extended online film-bibliography which guides readers through the often overwhelming range of filmic resources now available, providing valuable resources for research and pedagogy.
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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8,50 MB
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978-1-009-20094-3 (9781009200943)
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Victoria Bladen | Sarah Hatchuel | Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin
Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
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12/2023
Cambridge University Press
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1. Introduction - from canon to queer: Romeo and Juliet on screen Victoria Bladen, Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin; Part I. Revisiting the Canon: 2. The Italian job: Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet and the 1960s Samuel Crowl; 3. The anguish of youth in film adaptations of Romeo and Juliet Delilah Bermudez Brataas; 4. Aquatic and celestial space in Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996) Victoria Bladen; 5. Coming to grips with Shakespeare's tragedy in a film musical: Reassessing Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins's West Side Story (1961) Pascale Drouet; Part II. Extending Genre: 6. Romeo and Juliet and the Western Douglas M. Lanier; 7. Pixarfication, comedy and earning the happy ending in Gnomeo & Juliet Benjamin Broadribb; 8. Decentering the hypotext with denim and zombies: Jonathan Levine's Warm Bodies (2009) and David Lachapelle's Romeo & Juliet (2005) Magdalena Cieslak; 9. Guns, rasa and roses: Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Ram-Leela (2013), a 'Desi' Romeo and Juliet Melissa Croteau; 10. Indian Romeo and Juliets and their uncommonly tragic endings Koel Chatterjee; Part III. Serial and Queer Romeo and Juliets: 11. Romeo and Juliet, again and again: Star-crossed lovers adapted to serial television Kinga Foeldvary; 12. Romeo and Juliet in Japanese anime Candy Candy: The balcony scene between tradition and subversion Sarah Hatchuel and Ronan Ludot-Vlasak; 13. The (Un)Queering of Romeo and Juliet on film Anthony Guy Patricia; 14. Romeo and Juliet and queer temporality in three twenty-first-century streaming web-series Sujata Iyengar; 15. Reviving Juliet and surviving Romeo in Shakespeare web-series Jennifer Flaherty; 16. Romeo and Juliet on screen: Select film bibliography Jose Ramon Diaz Fernandez.
