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Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century
. Ed(S): Burnett, Mark Thornton; Wray, Ramona
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Paperback. 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 Almereyda's Hamlet to the BBC 'Shakespea(Re)-Told' season, from Radford's The Merchant of Venice to Babakitis' Henry V. Editor(s): Burnett, Mark Thornton; Wray, Ramona. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFA; APT; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 302 x 2. Weight in Grams: 344.
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. Arguing that Shakespeare is a magnet ... Read more
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. Arguing that Shakespeare is a magnet ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748623518
SKU
V9780748623518
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About . Ed(S): Burnett, Mark Thornton; Wray, Ramona
Mark Thornton Burnett is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen's University, Belfast. He is the author of Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture: Authority and Obedience (Macmillan, 1997), Constructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture (Palgrave, 2002) and Filming Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace (Palgrave, 2007).
Reviews for Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century
The ten essays in this collection ! have something new and special to offer. The book is cutting-edge not only because it is sharply focused on the latest screen versions of Shakespeare, but also because of its twenty-first century approach to the subject. Brings the study of Shakespeare on film bang up to date...These are engaged and provocative critical assessments ... Read more