This Concise Companion presents a multidisciplinary range of
approaches to a vast multimedia subject, Shakespeare on screen.
* Draws on the latest thinking in cultural studies,
communications, and comparative media, in dialogue with literary,
theatrical and filmic approaches.
* Organised around themes, such as authorship and collaboration,
theatricality, sex and violence, globalization and history.
* Offers readers a variety of accessible routes into the subject
of Shakespeare on screen.
* Also enables readers to explore fundamental topics in the study
of literature and culture more broadly, such as the relationships
between elite and popular culture, art and the marketplace, text
and image.
* Includes suggestions for further reading, a bibliography, a
filmography, a chronology and a thorough index.
Mục lục
Acknowledgments vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Bibliographical Note xi
Chronology xii
Introduction: Through a Camera, Darkly 1
Diana E. Henderson
1 Authorship: Getting Back to Shakespeare: Whose Film is it Anyway? 8
Elsie Walker
2 Cinema Studies: ‘Thou Dost Usurp Authority’: Beerbohm Tree, Reinhardt, Olivier, Welles, and the
Politics of Adapting Shakespeare 31
Anthony R. Guneratne
3 Theatricality: Stage, Screen, and Nation: Hamlet and the Space of History 54
Robert Shaughnessy
4 The Artistic Process: Learning from Campbell Scott’s Hamlet 77
Diana E. Henderson
5 Cinematic Performance: Spectacular Bodies: Acting ?y?n Cinema ?y?n Shakespeare 96
Barbara Hodgdon
6 Gender Studies: Shakespeare, Sex, and Violence: Negotiating Masculinities in Branagh’s Henry V
and Taymor’s Titus 112
Pascale Aebischer
7 Globalization: Figuring the Global/Historical in Filmic Shakespearean Tragedy 133
Mark Thornton Burnett
8 Cross-Cultural Interpretation: Reading Kurosawa Reading Shakespeare 155
Anthony Dawson
9 Popular Culture: Will of the People: Recent Shakespeare Film Parody and the Politics of Popularization 176
Douglas Lanier
10 Television Studies: Brushing Up Shakespeare: Relevance and Televisual Form 197
Roberta E. Pearson and William Uricchio
11 Remediation: Hamlet among the Pixelvisionaries: Video Art, Authenticity, and ‘Wisdom’ in Almereyda’s
Hamlet 216
Peter S. Donaldson
Afterword: Unending Revels: Visual Pleasure and Compulsory Shakespeare 238
Kathleen Mc Luskie
Select Bibliography 250
Index 253
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Diana E. Henderson is Associate Professor of Literature at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of Passion Made Public: Elizabethan Lyric, Gender and Performance (1995) and Collaborations with the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare Across Time and Media (2006).
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