Shakespeare, The Movie II: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, Video and DVD

by Burt,Richard; Burt,Richard

• ISBN13: 9780415282987
• ISBN10: 0415282985
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Following on from the phenomenally successful Shakespeare, The Movie, this volume brings together an invaluable new collection of essays on cinematic Shakespeares in the 1990s and beyond. Shakespeare, The Movie, II.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
Notes on contributors	ix
Introduction: Editors' cut	1	(13)
Richard Burt
Lynda E. Boose
Shakespeare, ``Glo-cali-zation,'' race, and the small screens of post-popular culture	14	(23)
Richard Burt
``Remember me'': technologies of memory in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet	37	(19)
Katherine Rowe
James Dean meets the pirate's daughter: passion and parody in William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet and Shakespeare in Love	56	(16)
Michael Anderegg
Sure can sing and dance: minstrelsy, the star system, and the post-postcoloniality of Kenneth Branagh's Love's Labour's Lost and Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night	72	(17)
Katherine Eggert
Race-ing Othello, re-engendering white-out, II	89	(16)
Barbara Hodgdon
Shakespeare in the age of post-mechanical reproduction: sexual and electronic magic in Prospero's Books	105	(15)
Peter S. Donaldson
A Shrew for the times, revisited	120	(20)
Diana E. Henderson
Mixing media and animating Shakespeare tales	140	(14)
Laurie Osborne
Nostalgia and theatricality: the fate of the Shakespearean stage in the Midsummer Night's Dreams of Hoffman, Noble, and Edzard	154	(19)
Douglas Lanier
``Top of the world, ma'': Richard III and cinematic convention	173	(13)
James N. Loehlin
Shakespeare and the street: Pacino's Looking for Richard, Bedford's Street King, and the common understanding	186	(14)
Thomas Cartelli
The family tree motel: subliming Shakespeare in My Own Private Idaho	200	(13)
Susan Wiseman
War is mud: Branagh's Dirty Harry V and the types of political ambiguity	213	(18)
Donald K. Hedrick
Out dammed Scot: dislocating Macbeth in transnational film and media culture	231	(21)
Courtney Lehmann
Dogme Shakespeare 95: European cinema, anti-Hollywood sentiment, and the Bard	252	(13)
Amy Scott-Douglass
Shakespeare and Asia in postdiasporic cinemas: spin-offs and citations of the plays from Bollywood to Hollywood	265	(39)
Richard Burt
References	304	(19)
Filmography	323	(6)
Index	329