A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen (Concise Companions to Literature and Culture)

This Concise Companion presents a multidisciplinary range of approaches to a vast multimedia subject, Shakespeare on screen. The book’s contributors use the latest thinking from cultural studies, communications, and comparative media, in dialogue with literary, theatrical, and filmic approaches, in order to push the field forward. They consider Shakespeare on screen not only as a set of finished products but also as a process. For this reason, the volume is organized around topics such as authorship and collaboration, theatricality, sex and violence, globalization, and history. The Concise Companion offers readers a variety of accessible routes into Shakespeare on screen and supports further study of the subject through the inclusion of a bibliography, a chronological chart, and a thorough index. At the same time, it serves as a focal point for exploring fundamental issues in the study of literature and culture more broadly, such as the relationships between elite and popular culture, art and the marketplace, text, image, and performance. This Concise Companion Presents A Multidisciplinary Range Of Approaches To A Vast Multimedia Subject, Shakespeare On Screen. Draws On The Latest Thinking In Cultural Studies, Communications, And Comparative Media, In Dialogue With Literary, Theatrical And Filmic Approaches. Organised Around Themes, Such As Authorship And Collaboration, Theatricality, Sex And Violence, Globalization And History. Offers Readers A Variety Of Accessible Routes Into The Subject Of Shakespeare On Screen. Also Enables Readers To Explore Fundamental Topics In The Study Of Literature And Culture More Broadly, Such As The Relationships Between Elite And Popular Culture, Art And The Marketplace, Text And Image. Includes Suggestions For Further Reading, A Bibliography, A Filmography, A Chronology And A Thorough Index. Authorship : Getting Back To Shakespeare : Whose Film Is It Anyway? / Elsie Walker -- Cinema Studies : Thou Dost Usurp Authority : Beerbohm Tree, Reinhardt, Olivier, Welles, And The Politics Of Adapting Shakespeare / Anthony Guneratne -- Theatricality : Stage, Screen And Nation : Hamlet And The Space Of History / Robert Shaughnessy -- The Artistic Process : Learning From Campbell Scott's Hamlet / Diana E. Henderson -- Cinematic Performance : Spectacular Bodies : Acting + Cinema + Shakespeare / Barbara Godgdon -- Gender Studies : Shakespeare, Sex And Violence : Negotiating Masculinities In Branagh's Henry V And Taymor's Titus / Pascale Aesbischer -- Globalization : Figuring The Global/historical In Filmic Shakespearean Tragedy / Mark Thornton Burnett -- Cross-cultural Interpretation : Reading Kurosawa Reading Shakespeare / Anthony Dawson -- Popular Culture : Will Of The People : Recent Shakespeare Film Parody And The Politics Of Popularization / Douglas Lanier -- Television Studies : Brushing Up Shakespeare : Relevance And Televisual Form / Roberta Pearson And William Uricchio -- Remediation : Hamlet Among The Pixelvisionaries : Video Art, Authenticity And Wisdom In Almereyda's Hamlet / Peter S. Donaldson. Edited By Diana E. Henderson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 250-252) And Index. A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen......Page 5 Contents......Page 7 Acknowledgments......Page 9 Notes on Contributors......Page 10 Bibliographical Note......Page 13 Chronology......Page 14 Introduction: Through a Camera, Darkly......Page 27 1 Authorship: Getting Back to Shakespeare: Whose Film is it Anyway?......Page 34 2 Cinema Studies: "Thou Dost Usurp Authority": Beerbohm Tree, Reinhardt, Olivier, Welles, and the Politics of Adapting Shakespeare......Page 57 3 Theatricality: Stage, Screen, and Nation: Hamlet and the Space of History......Page 80 4 The Artistic Process: Learning from Campbell Scott’s Hamlet......Page 103 5 Cinematic Performance: Spectacular Bodies: Acting + Cinema + Shakespeare......Page 122 6 Gender Studies: Shakespeare, Sex, and Violence: Negotiating Masculinities in Branagh’s Henry V and Taymor’s Titus......Page 138 7 Globalization: Figuring the Global/Historical in Filmic Shakespearean Tragedy......Page 159 8 Cross-Cultural Interpretation: Reading Kurosawa Reading Shakespeare......Page 181 9 Popular Culture: Will of the People: Recent Shakespeare Film Parody and the Politics of Popularization......Page 202 10 Television Studies: Brushing Up Shakespeare: Relevance and Televisual Form......Page 223 11 Remediation: Hamlet among the Pixelvisionaries: Video Art, Authenticity, and "Wisdom" in Almereyda’s Hamlet......Page 242 Afterword: Unending Revels: Visual Pleasure and Compulsory Shakespeare......Page 264 Select Bibliography......Page 276 Index......Page 279