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Shakespeare, The Movie Lynda E. Boose

Shakespeare, The Movie By Lynda E. Boose

Shakespeare, The Movie by Lynda E. Boose

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Considers how Shakespeare has been adapted on film, TV, and video. Addressing the interplay between the discourses of Shakespeare criticism, film studies, performance studies and cultural studies, the text considers a range of questions about spectatorship, originality and popular culture.

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Shakespeare, The Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV and Video by Lynda E. Boose

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.

Shakespeare, The Movie Reviews

"[T]hese essays help us understand how Shakespeare continues to live in the twentieth century, and they do it in a manner incomparably more interesting than the articles in the popular media that appear with nauseating regularity and ubiquity at the release of every new adaptation. Hogdon's piece, like so many of the essays in this collection at their best, combines deftly detailed observation of the filmtexts and an abundance of research into contemporary mass and popular culture (audience responses, interviews, press clippings) with keen readings of the plays and sophisticated reflection on the rhetoric of political discourses. [S]ome of the contributions to the volume simply offer a variety of well-researched cultural histories and thoughtful close readings of the filmtexts from which one can learn a great deal."
-"Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
"Lynda Boose and Richard Burt have collected quality essays that examine filmed Shakespeare from a variety of perspectives. Many of the essays do excellent work in viewing filmed Shakespeare within the context of Hollywood and/or international film, demonstrating how Hollywood colors Shakespeare and how Shakespeare colors Hollywood."
-"Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, 1998

About Lynda E. Boose

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.

Table of Contents

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.

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GOR002535239
9780415165853
0415165857
Shakespeare, The Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV and Video by Lynda E. Boose
Lynda E. Boose
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1997-10-09
288
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