The essays in this volume read the Shakespeare films of the 1990s as key instruments with which western culture confronts the anxieties attendant upon the transition from one century to another. Such films as Hamlet, Love's Labour's Lost, Othello, Shakespeare in Love and William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet , the contributors maintain, engage with some of the most pressing concerns of the present, apocalyptic condition - familial crisis, social estrangement, urban blight, cultural hybridity, literary authority, the impact of technology and the end of history. The volume includes an exclusive interview with Kenneth Branagh.…mehr
The essays in this volume read the Shakespeare films of the 1990s as key instruments with which western culture confronts the anxieties attendant upon the transition from one century to another. Such films as Hamlet, Love's Labour's Lost, Othello, Shakespeare in Love and William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet , the contributors maintain, engage with some of the most pressing concerns of the present, apocalyptic condition - familial crisis, social estrangement, urban blight, cultural hybridity, literary authority, the impact of technology and the end of history. The volume includes an exclusive interview with Kenneth Branagh.
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Autorenporträt
DOUGLAS BRUSTER Assistant Professor of English, University of Texas, Austin JUDITH BUCHANAN Lecturer in Film Studies, English Faculty, University of Oxford STEPHEN M. BUHLER Associate Professor of English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln RICHARD BURT Professor of English, University of Massachusetts PETER HOLLAND Director and Fellow of Shakespeare Studies, Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon MARGARET JANE KIDNIE Lecturer in English, South Bank University, London JAMES N. LOEHLIN Associate Professor of English, University of Texas, Austin AMELIA MARRIETTE Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham ANDREW MURPHY Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews JULIE SANDERS Lecturer in English, Keele University NEIL SINYARD Head of English, University of Hull EMMA SMITH Fellow, Hertford College and Lecturer in English, University of Oxford
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Foreword; P.Holland Introduction; M.T.Burnett & R.Wray The Book on the Screen: Shakespeare Films and Textual Culture; A.Murphy The Postmodern Theatre of Paul Mazursky's Tempest; D.Bruster Camp Richard III and the Burdens of (Stage/Film) History; S.M.Buhler Shakespeare Meets The Godfather : The Postmodern Populism of Al Pacino's Looking for Richard; N.Sinyard Urban Dystopias: Re-approaching Christine Edzard's As You Like It; A.Marriette Impressions of Fantasy: Adrian Noble's A Midsummer Night's Dream; M.T.Burnett 'The Way the World is Now': Love in the Troma Zone; M.J.Kidnie 'These Violent Delights have Violent Ends': Baz Luhrmann's Millennial Shakespeare; J.N.Loehlin 'Either for Tragedy, Comedy': Attitudes to Hamlet in Kenneth Branagh's In the Bleak Midwinter and Hamlet; A.Smith The End of History and the Last Man: Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet; J.Sanders From the Horse's Mouth: Branagh on the Bard; R.Wray & M.T.Burnett Virgin and Ape, Venetian and Infidel: Labellings of Otherness in Oliver Parker's Othello; J.Buchanan Shakespeare in Love and the End of the Shakespearean: Academic and Mass Culture Constructions of Literary Authorship; R.Burt Index
Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Foreword; P.Holland Introduction; M.T.Burnett & R.Wray The Book on the Screen: Shakespeare Films and Textual Culture; A.Murphy The Postmodern Theatre of Paul Mazursky's Tempest; D.Bruster Camp Richard III and the Burdens of (Stage/Film) History; S.M.Buhler Shakespeare Meets The Godfather : The Postmodern Populism of Al Pacino's Looking for Richard; N.Sinyard Urban Dystopias: Re-approaching Christine Edzard's As You Like It; A.Marriette Impressions of Fantasy: Adrian Noble's A Midsummer Night's Dream; M.T.Burnett 'The Way the World is Now': Love in the Troma Zone; M.J.Kidnie 'These Violent Delights have Violent Ends': Baz Luhrmann's Millennial Shakespeare; J.N.Loehlin 'Either for Tragedy, Comedy': Attitudes to Hamlet in Kenneth Branagh's In the Bleak Midwinter and Hamlet; A.Smith The End of History and the Last Man: Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet; J.Sanders From the Horse's Mouth: Branagh on the Bard; R.Wray & M.T.Burnett Virgin and Ape, Venetian and Infidel: Labellings of Otherness in Oliver Parker's Othello; J.Buchanan Shakespeare in Love and the End of the Shakespearean: Academic and Mass Culture Constructions of Literary Authorship; R.Burt Index
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