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New Wave Shakespeare on Screen

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ISBN-10: 0745633935

ISBN-13: 9780745633930

Edition: 2007

Authors: Thomas Cartelli, Katherine Rowe

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The past several years have witnessed a group of experiments in 'staging' Shakespeare on film. This book introduces & applies the analytic techniques & language that are required to make sense of this wave. It maps a vocabulary for interpreting Shakespeare film & addresses script-to-screen questions about authority & performativity.
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Book details

List price: $34.25
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 1/29/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.70" wide x 9.74" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Katherine Rowe, Bryn Mawr, teaches and writes about the history of reading, writing and performance, from the Renaissance to the digital age. A recipient of grants from the NEH, the Mellon Foundation, and the PA Department of Education that support her work in media history, Prof. Rowe is a member of the editorial board of Shakespeare Quarterly and Associate Editor of The Cambridge World Shakespeare Encyclopedia.

Plays and Films Featured in Chapters
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: New Wave Shakespeare on and off Screen
Beyond Branagh and the BBC
Adaptation as a Cultural Process
Conceptual and critical resources
Revival
Recycling
Hamlet Rewound
Anachronism
Tradition and "modernity"
Remediation and memory
New media
Underground cinema
Colliding Time and Space in Taymor's Titus
Allusion
Interpolation
Citational environments
Conceptual art
Ghosting
Surrogation
New media
Expressionist film
Vernacular Shakespeare
Parody, burlesque, and masquerade
Docudrama
Popular culture
Sound
Riffing
Sampling
Channeling Othello
Televisuality
Surrogation
Character function and effect
Voice-over
Race and performance
Surviving Shakespeare: Kristian Levring's The King is Alive
Documentary and experimental film
Voice-over
Cultural memory
Character function and effect
Subtitles
Substitution and translation
Notes
References
Resources
Index