Shakespeare, Bakhtin, and Film : A Dialogic Lens

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This book explores how Bakhtin’s ideas can illuminate the compelling but uneasy fusion of Shakespeare and cinema. With a wide variety of tones, languages, cultural orientations, and thematic concerns, film directors have updated, translated, transposed, fragmented, parodied, and geographically re-situated Shakespeare. Keith Harrison illustrates how Bakhtin’s interlinked writings in various fields can fruitfully be applied to an understanding of how the ongoing responsiveness of filmmakers to Shakespeare’s historically remote words can shape self-expressive acts of co-authoring in another medium. Through the use of such Bakhtinian concepts as the chronotope, heteroglossia, the carnivalesque, and polyphony, Harrison details how filmmakers—faithful to their specific cultures, genders, geographies, and historical moments—dialogically locate their particularity through Shakespeare’s presence. Read more... Abstract: This book explores how Bakhtin's ideas can illuminate the compelling but uneasy fusion of Shakespeare and cinema. Read more... Front Matter ....Pages i-ix William Shakespeare and Mikhail Bakhtin: Filming Dialogically (Keith Harrison)....Pages 1-26 Chronotopes and Categories of Shakespeare-Inflected Films (Keith Harrison)....Pages 27-55 Chronotopic Images and Cinematic Dialogism with Shakespeare (Keith Harrison)....Pages 57-91 Kurosawa, Kozintsev, Kaurismäki, and Almereyda: Hamlet and Transnational Dialogism (Keith Harrison)....Pages 93-122 Withnail and I: The Ghost of Shakespeare (Keith Harrison)....Pages 123-140 Bakhtinian Polyphony in Godard’s King Lear (Keith Harrison)....Pages 141-162 Shakespeare Shaping in Dogme95 Films, and Bakhtin’s Theory of Tragedy (Keith Harrison)....Pages 163-186 Scotland, PA: Parody, Nostalgia, Irony, and Menippean Satire (Keith Harrison)....Pages 187-208 Romeo and Juliet, Polyglossia, and the Romantic Politics of Deepa Mehta’s Water (Keith Harrison)....Pages 209-226 Unfinalizability and Cinematic Shakespeare (Keith Harrison)....Pages 227-233 Back Matter ....Pages 235-263