Almost Shakespeare: Reinventing His Works for Cinema and TelevisionJames R. Keller, Leslie Stratyner 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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... film , are we seeing the Bard , or are we seeing who he saw ? A Thousand Acres seems to be an adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear , but perhaps the film is also influenced by the second book of Spenser's Faerie Queene or Geoffrey of ...
... film grows out of an appreciation for the writer's and / or director's inven- tiveness and wit ; the film grabs the audience's attention through its star- tling improbability and retains its interest by suspending the resolution of the ...
... film based on Othello . The author argues that the film's " near obses- sion " with open vowels and circularity reveals an ambivalent relationship with Shakespeare , both reinforcing and subverting the centrality of the par- ent text ...
... film 10 Things I Hate About You to the social phenomenon that she terms a " conservative retrenchment . " Debates on the literary canon and recent court decisions are related to the silencing of Kat / Kate in the film's contemporary ...
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Contents
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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 |