Spectral Shakespeares
Title | Spectral Shakespeares PDF eBook |
Author | M. Calbi |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2013-09-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1137063769 |
Spectral Shakespeares is an illuminating exploration of recent, experimental adaptations of Shakespeare on film, TV, and the web. Drawing on adaptation studies and media theory as well as Jacques Derrida's work, this book argues that these adaptations foreground a cluster of self-reflexive "themes" - from incorporation to reiteration, from migration to addiction, from silence to survival - that contribute to the redefinition of adaptation, and Shakespearean adaptation in particular, as an unfinished and interminable process. The "Shakespeare" that emerges from these adaptations is a fragmentary, mediatized, and heterogeneous presence, a spectral Shakespeare that leaves a mark on our contemporary mediascape.
Spectral Shakespeares
Title | Spectral Shakespeares PDF eBook |
Author | M. Calbi |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2013-09-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1137063769 |
Spectral Shakespeares is an illuminating exploration of recent, experimental adaptations of Shakespeare on film, TV, and the web. Drawing on adaptation studies and media theory as well as Jacques Derrida's work, this book argues that these adaptations foreground a cluster of self-reflexive "themes" - from incorporation to reiteration, from migration to addiction, from silence to survival - that contribute to the redefinition of adaptation, and Shakespearean adaptation in particular, as an unfinished and interminable process. The "Shakespeare" that emerges from these adaptations is a fragmentary, mediatized, and heterogeneous presence, a spectral Shakespeare that leaves a mark on our contemporary mediascape.
Bollywood Shakespeares
Title | Bollywood Shakespeares PDF eBook |
Author | C. Dionne |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2015-12-17 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1137375566 |
Here, essays use the latest theories in postcolonialism, globalization, and post-nationalism to explore how world cinema and theater respond to Bollywood's representation of Shakespeare. In this collection, Shakespeare is both part of an elite Western tradition and a window into a vibrant post-national identity founded by a global consumer culture.
The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Adaptation
Title | The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Adaptation PDF eBook |
Author | Diana E. Henderson |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2022-03-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1350110329 |
The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Adaptation explores the dynamics of adapted Shakespeare across a range of literary genres and new media forms. This comprehensive reference and research resource maps the field of Shakespeare adaptation studies, identifying theories of adaptation, their application in practice and the methodologies that underpin them. It investigates current research and points towards future lines of enquiry for students, researchers and creative practitioners of Shakespeare adaptation. The opening section on research methods and problems considers definitions and theories of Shakespeare adaptation and emphasises how Shakespeare is both adaptor and adapted.A central section develops these theoretical concerns through a series of case studies that move across a range of genres, media forms and cultures to ask not only how Shakespeare is variously transfigured, hybridised and valorised through adaptational play, but also how adaptations produce interpretive communities, and within these potentially new literacies, modes of engagement and sensory pleasures. The volume's third section provides the reader with uniquely detailed insights into creative adaptation, with writers and practice-based researchers reflecting on their close collaborations with Shakespeare's works as an aesthetic, ethical and political encounter. The Handbook further establishes the conceptual parameters of the field through detailed, practical resources that will aid the specialist and non-specialist reader alike, including a guide to research resources and an annotated bibliography.
Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation
Title | Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation PDF eBook |
Author | Alexa Huang |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 2014-10-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1137375779 |
Making an important new contribution to rapidly expanding fields of study surrounding the adaptation and appropriation of Shakespeare, Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation is the first book to address the intersection of ethics, aesthetics, authority, and authenticity.
Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet
Title | Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet PDF eBook |
Author | Victoria Bladen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2023-10-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1009200933 |
Providing up-to-date coverage of screen versions of Romeo and Juliet, this book encompasses a broad range of media from canonical movies to web series. The chapters, written by internationally recognized scholars, revisit well-known films and TV productions, while also exploring free retellings and introducing appropriations from around the globe.
Shakespeare the Illusionist
Title | Shakespeare the Illusionist PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Forsyth |
Publisher | Ohio University Press |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2019-02-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0821446479 |
In Shakespeare the Illusionist, Neil Forsyth reviews the history of Shakespeare’s plays on film, using the basic distinction in film tradition between what is owed to Méliès and what to the Lumière brothers. He then tightens his focus on those plays that include some explicit magical or supernatural elements—Puck and the fairies, ghosts and witches, or Prospero’s island, for example—and sets out methodically, but with an easy touch, to review all the films that have adapted those comedies and dramas, into the present day. Forsyth’s aim is not to offer yet another answer as to whether Shakespeare would have written for the screen if he were alive today, but rather to assess what various filmmakers and TV directors have in fact made of the spells, haunts, and apparitions in his plays. From analyzing early camera tricks to assessing contemporary handling of the supernatural, Forsyth reads Shakespeare films for how they use the techniques of moviemaking to address questions of illusion and dramatic influence. In doing so, he presents a bold step forward in Shakespeare and film studies, and his fresh take is presented in lively, accessible language that makes the book ideal for classroom use.