New Wave Shakespeare on ScreenISBN: 978-0-7456-3392-3
Hardcover
224 pages
December 2006, Polity
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List of Illustrations.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Preface.
Introduction: New Wave Shakespeare on and off Screen.
Chapter 1: Beyond Branagh and the BBC.
multiplying canons.
Chapter 2: Adaptation as a Cultural Process.
conceptual and critical resources • revival • recycling.
Chapter 3: Hamlet Rewound.
anachronism • tradition and “modernity” • remediation and memory • new media • underground cinema.
Chapter 4: Colliding Time and Space in Julie Taymor’s Titus.
allusion • interpolation • citational environments • conceptual art • ghosting • surrogation.
new media • expressionist film.
Chapter 5: Vernacular Shakespeare.
parody, burlesque, and masquerade,• docudrama • popular culture sound • riffing • sampling.
Chapter 6: Channeling Othello.
televisuality • surrogation • character function and effect • voiceover • race and performance.
Chapter 7: Surviving Shakespeare: Kristian Levring’s The King is Alive.
documentary and experimental film • voiceover • cultural memory • character function and effect • subtitles • substitution and translation.
Works Cited.
Films, Videos, DVDs, Television Cited.
Notes.
References.
Resources.
Index