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Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century

By Mark Thornton Burnett , Romona Wray

Book information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
0748623515, 9780748623518
Open Library ID
OL22739960M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
923 kB (944850 bytes)
Pages
218\225
Time added
2011-01-24 12:34:20

Description

This bold new collection surveys the rich field of Bardic film representations, from Michael Almereyda's Hamlet and the BBC "Shakespea(Re)-Told" season to Michael Radford's The Merchant of Venice and Peter Babakitis' Henry V. The volume offers in-depth analyses of major and obscure productions, touching on advertisements, appropriations, postcolonial reinventions, and mass media citations, arguing that Shakespeare is a magnet for debate over style, literary authority, nationality, ethnicity, gender, and romance. Consideration the Derry Film Initiative Hamlet, the New Zealand The Maori Merchant of Venice, and the television documentary In Search of Shakespeare, this collection innovatively assesses the continuing relevance of Shakespeare in his many local and global screen incarnations.

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