Ailsa Ferguson

Shakespeare, Cinema, Counter-Culture

Appropriation and Inversion

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Produktbeschreibung

Addressing for the first time Shakespeare's place in counter-cultural cinema, this book examines and theorizes counter-hegemonic, postmodern, and post-punk Shakespeare in late 20th and early 21st century film. Drawing on a diverse range of case studies, Grant Ferguson presents an interdisciplinary approach that offers new t

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9780367867799
• ISBN-10: 0367867796
• Artikelnr.: 69892304

Autorenporträt

Ailsa Grant Ferguson is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of Brighton, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: (Post)Punk Shakespeare, carnival and rebellion: The Filth and
the Fury and Richard III
Chapter Two: Shakespeare and inversion: My Own Private Idaho and Henry IV
parts 1 & 2
Chapter Three: The dance of death: Dogme#4: The King is Alive and King Lear
Chapter Four: Three Hamlets: Festivity and sedition
Prologue: "Hamlet the reformer"
i. Hamlet Liikemaailmassa (or Hamlet Goes Business, Finland, 1987, dir. Aki
Kaurismaki)
ii. Festen (The Celebration, 1999, Denmark)
iii. Hamlet (2000, USA, dir. Michael Almereyda)
Bibliography
Filmography
Index