Screening Early Modern Drama

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-107-02493-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 571 g

While film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays captured the popular imagination at the turn of the last century, independent filmmakers began to adapt the plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries. The roots of their films in European avant-garde cinema and the plays' politically subversive, sexually transgressive and violent subject matter challenge Shakespeare's cultural dominance and the conventions of mainstream cinema. In Screening Early Modern Drama, Pascale Aebischer shows how director Derek Jarman constructed an alternative, dissident, approach to filming literary heritage in his 'queer' Caravaggio and Edward II, providing models for subsequent filmmakers such as Mike Figgis, Peter Greenaway, Alex Cox and Sarah Harding. Aebischer explains how the advent of digital video has led to an explosion in low-budget screen versions of early modern drama. The only comprehensive analysis of early modern drama on screen to date, this groundbreaking study also includes an extensive annotated filmography listing forty-eight surviving adaptations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aebischer, Pascale

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: beyond Shakespeare: the contemporary Jacobean film; 1. Derek Jarman's queer contemporary Jacobean aesthetic: Caravaggio and Edward II; 2. The preposterous contemporary Jacobean film: Peter Greenaway's Cook, heritage Shakespeare and sexual exploitation in Mike Figgis's Hotel; 3. Third cinema, urban regeneration and heritage Shakespeare in Alex Cox's Revengers Tragedy; 4. Early modern performance and digital media: remediation and the evolving archival canon; 5. Bend it like Nagra: mainstreaming The Changeling in Sarah Harding's Compulsion; Conclusion: early modern dramatists on twenty-first-century screens; Appendix 1. Chronological list of surviving film adaptations; Appendix 2. Annotated filmography: early modern drama on screen, 1926-2012.

Über Autor(innen)

Aebischer, Pascale
Pascale Aebischer is Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Studies at the University of Exeter. Her co-edited collection Remaking Shakespeare: Performance Across Media, Genres and Cultures (2003) and her first book, Shakespeare's Violated Bodies: Stage and Screen Performance (2004), were followed by a wide range of articles in books and leading journals, including Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Bulletin and Shakespeare Survey. In Jacobean Drama (2010), her focus began to shift towards early modern performance studies, which she explored more fully in Performing Early Modern Drama Today (2012), a collection she co-edited with Kathryn Prince. As General Editor of Shakespeare Bulletin, she encourages conversations about early modern drama in performance and seeks to set Shakespeare alongside his contemporaries, both on early modern stages and in present-day performance practice.