Boose / Burt Shakespeare, The Movie

Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV and Video
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-1-134-70753-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Shakespeare, The Movie brings together an impressive line-up of contributors to consider how Shakespeare has been adapted on film, TV, and video, and explores the impact of this popularization on the canonical status of Shakespeare.
Taking a fresh look at the Bard an his place in the movies, Shakespeare, The Movie includes a selection of what is presently available in filmic format to the Shakespeare student or scholar, ranging across BBC television productions, filmed theatre productions, and full screen adaptations by Kenneth Branagh and Franco Zeffirelli. Films discussed include:

* Amy Heckerling's Clueless
* Gus van Sant's My Own Private Idaho
* Branagh's Henry V
* Baz Luhrman's William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
* John McTiernan's Last Action Hero
* Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books
* Zeffirelli's Hamlet.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boose, Lynda E.

Burt, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Pop Art, Minimalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations, 1. "Introduction: Shakespeare, the Movie" - Lynda E. Boose and Richard Burt, 2. "Totally Clueless?: Shakespeare Goes Hollywood in the 1990s" - Lynda E. Boose and Richard Burt, 3. "Race-ing Othello, Re-Engendering White Out" - Barbara Hodgdon, 4. "War is Mud: Branagh's Dirty Harry V and the Types of Political Ambiguity" - Donald K. Hedrick, 5. "Top of the World, Ma": Richard III and Cinematic Convention" - James Loehlin, 6. "Popularizing Shakespeare: The Artistry of France Zeffirelli" -Robert Hapgood, 7. "Shakespeare Wallah and Colonial Specularity" - Valerie Wayne, 8. "Poetry in Motion: Animating Shakespeare" - Laurie E. Osborne, 9. "When Peter Met Orson: The 1953 CBS King Lear" -Tony Howard, 10. "In Search of Nothing: Mapping Lear" - Kenneth S. Rothwell, 11. "A Shrew for the Times" - Diana E. Henderson, 12. "Shakespeare in the Age of Post-Mechanical Reproduction: Sexual and Electronic Magic in Prospero's Books" - Peter S. Donaldson, 13. "Grossly Gaping Viewers and Jonathan Miller's Othello" - Lynda E. Boose, 14. "'Age Cannot Wither Him': Warren Beatty's Bugsy as Hollywood Cleopatra" - Katherine Eggert, 15. "Asta Nielsen and the Mystery of Hamlet" - Ann Thompson, 16. "The Family Tree Motel: Subliming Shakespeare in My Own Private Idaho" - Sue Wiseman, 17. "The Love That Dare Not Speak Shakespeare's Name: New Shakesqueer Cinema" - Richard Burt.

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Burt is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts. Lynda Boose is Professor of English and Women's Studies at Dartmouth College.