Almost Shakespeare: Reinventing His Works for Cinema and TelevisionJames R. Keller, Leslie Stratyner McFarland, 04.11.2014 - 203 Seiten In the past two decades, Othello has tried out for the basketball team, Macbeth has taken over a fast food joint and King Lear has moved to an Iowa farm--Shakespeare is everywhere in popular culture. This collection of essays addresses the use of Shakespearean narratives, themes, imagery and characterizations in non-Shakespearian cinema. The essays explore how Shakespeare and his work are manipulated within the popular media and explore topics such as racism, jealousy, misogyny and nationality. The submissions concentrate on film and television programs that are adaptations of Shakespearean plays, including My Own Private Idaho, CSI-Miami, A Thousand Acres, Prospero's Books, O, 10 Things I Hate About You, Withnail and I, Get Over It, and The West Wing. Each chapter includes notes and a list of works cited. A full bibliography completes the work; it is divided into bibliographies and filmographies, general studies and essays, derivatives based on a single play, derivatives based on several, and derivatives based on Shakespeare as a character. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here. |
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... speare the misogynist , Shakespeare the conservative , Shakespeare the pro- gressive liberal , Shakespeare the icon of high culture , Shakespeare the pop idol , Shakespeare the symbol of British culture , Shakespeare the embod- iment of ...
... speare's history plays . In " The Politics of Culture : The Play's the Thing , " Patrick Finn addresses the impact of Shakespeare's history plays on the " Posse Comitatus " episode of The West Wing . Citing the " muscular liber- alism ...
... speare's work in the organization of the film parallels that restoration of patriarchal authority within the action of the comedy . Kat's " taming " con- stitutes a silencing of leftist discourses . Dan DeWeese examines the slippery ...
... speare's history plays and in their current use on NBC's West Wing , it is necessary to give a quick history of each . Shakespeare's history plays share a fundamental theme related to the burden of political responsibility , which is in ...
... speare's cultural product continues to serve as functional equipment for political expression . In our current context , Aaron Sorkin's political drama , The West Wing , makes use of the same elements of political culture and cultural ...
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Imitation as Originality in Gus Van Sants My Own Private Idaho | 22 |
Shakespeare Transposed The British Stage on the PostColonial Screen | 42 |
Suture Shakespeare and Race Or What Is Our Cultural Debt to the Bard? | 57 |
Cinema in the Round SelfReflexivity in Tim Blake Nelsons O | 73 |
Sex Lies Videotape and Othello | 86 |
The Time Is Out of Joint Withnail and I and Historical Melancholia | 99 |
Horatio The First CSI | 113 |
Teen Scenes Recognizing Shakespeare in Teen Film | 122 |
An Aweful Rule Safe Schools Hard Canons and Shakespeares Loose Heirs | 137 |
Prosperous Pharmacy Peter Greenaway and the Critics Play Shakespeares Mimetic Game | 155 |
Shakespeare Film and Television Derivatives A Bibliography | 169 |
Contributors | 190 |
Index | 193 |