New wave Shakespeare on screen
Thomas Cartelli (Creator), Katherine Rowe
The past fifteen years have witnessed a diverse group of experiments in 'staging' Shakespeare on film. New Wave Shakespeare on Screen introduces and applies the new analytic techniques and language that are required to make sense of this new wave.
Film adaptations
xii, 201 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
9780745633923, 9780745633930, 0745633927, 0745633935
1039904192
Plays and Films Featured in Chapters. List of Illustrations. Preface. Acknowledgements. Preface. Introduction: New Wave Shakespeare on and off Screen. Chapter 1: Beyond Branagh and the BBC. multiplying canons. Chapter 2: Adaptation as a Cultural Process. conceptual and critical resources • revival • recycling. Chapter 3: Hamlet Rewound. anachronism • tradition and “modernity” • remediation and memory • new media • underground cinema. Chapter 4: Colliding Time and Space in Julie Taymor’s Titus. allusion • interpolation • citational environments • conceptual art • ghosting • surrogation. new media • expressionist film. Chapter 5: Vernacular Shakespeare. parody, burlesque, and masquerade,• docudrama • popular culture sound • riffing • sampling. Chapter 6: Channeling Othello. televisuality • surrogation • character function and effect • voiceover • race and performance. Chapter 7: Surviving Shakespeare: Kristian Levring’s The King is Alive. documentary and experimental film • voiceover • cultural memory • character function and effect • subtitles • substitution and translation. Works Cited. Films, Videos, DVDs, Television Cited. Notes. References. Resources. Index