This bold new collection offers an innovative discussion of Shakespeare on screen after the millennium. Cutting-edge, and fully up-to-date, it surveys the rich field of Bardic film representations, from Michael Almereyda's Hamlet to the BBC...
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Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt / Zentrale
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This bold new collection offers an innovative discussion of Shakespeare on screen after the millennium. Cutting-edge, and fully up-to-date, it surveys the rich field of Bardic film representations, from Michael Almereyda's Hamlet to the BBC 'Shakespea(Re)-Told' season, from Michael Radford's The Merchant of Venice to Peter Babakitis' Henry V. In addition to offering in-depth analyses of all the major productions, Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century includes reflections upon the less well-known filmic 'Shakespeares', which encompass cinema advertisements, appropriations, post-colonial reinventions and mass media citations, and which move across and between genres and mediums Introduction -- 1 'If I'm right': Michael Wood's In Search of Shakespeare -- 2 'I see my father' in 'my mind's eye': Surveillance and the Filmic Hamlet -- 3 Backstage Pass(ing): Stage Beauty, Othello and the Make-up of Race -- 4 The Postnostalgic Renaissance: The 'Place' of Liverpool in Don Boyd's My Kingdom -- 5 Our Shakespeares: British Television and the Strains of Multiculturalism -- 6 Looking for Shylock: Stephen Greenblatt, Michael Radford and Al Pacino -- 7 Speaking Maori Shakespeare: The Maori Merchant of Venice and the Legacy of Colonisation -- 8 'Into a thousand parts divide one man': Dehumanised Metafiction and Fragmented Documentary in Peter Babakitis' Henry V -- 9 Screening the McShakespeare in Post-Millennial Shakespeare Cinema -- 10 Shakespeare and the Singletons, or, Beatrice Meets Bridget Jones: Post-Feminism, Popular Culture and 'Shakespea(Re)-Told'
"Early versions of some of these chapters were given as papers at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne meeting of the British Shakespeare Association"--Acknowledgements