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Spectacular Shakespeare : critical theory and popular cinema

Print Book, English, ©2002
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Associated University Presses, Madison [N.J.], London, ©2002
Criticism, interpretation, etc
243 pages ; 24 cm
9780838639108, 0838639100
46565105
All our Othello: black monsters and white masks on the American screen / Marguerite Hailey Rippy
"How very like the home life of our own dear queen": Ian McKellen's Richard III / Lisa Hopkins
(Un)doing the book "without Verona walls": a view from the receiving end of Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet / Alfredo Michel Modenessi
Cutting up characters: the erotic politics of Trevor Nunn's Twelfth night / Laurie Osborne
The marriage of Shakespeare and Hollywood: Kenneth Branagh's Much ado about nothing / Samuel Crowl
Shakespeare in love: romancing the author, mastering the body / Courtney Lehmann
"Art thou base, common, and popular?": The cultural politics of Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet / Douglas Lanier
From the cinema to the classroom: Hollywood teaches Hamlet / Elizabeth A. Deitchman
The film's the thing: using Shakespearean film in the classroom / Annalisa Castaldo
Afterword: Te(e)n things I hate about Girlene Shakesploitation flicks in the late 1990's, or not-so-fast times at Shakespeare high / Richard Burt