Filming Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace (Palgrave Shakespeare Studies)

This exciting new title investigates the explosion of Shakespeare films during the 1990s and beyond. It reflects upon the contexts determining the production of different cinematic ventures, and it provides an innovative understanding of Shakespeare's constitution as a guardian of enshrined values and a figure associated with play and reinvention. Linking fluctuating "Shakespeares" with the growth of a global marketplace, the dissolution of national borders and technological advances, this book produces a fresh awareness of our contemporary cultural moment. This Polemical Study Contends That Shakespeare Films Produced On Both Sides Of The Millennium Respond To Globalization By Reflecting Upon The Changing Circumstances Of Their Own Cultural Locations. Examining Art-house Works As Well As Media Representations, Grass-roots Creations And Hollywood Statements, Burnett Argues For The Crucial Place Of Shakespeare In Contemporary Debates About Hybridity And Identity, Religion And Ethnicity, And Spirituality And Difference. Performing More Than One Task Simultaneously, The Productions Investigated Here Initiate And Sequelize, And Authenticate And Demythologize, Emptying Out The Regional As They Restore Local Within A Grammar Of The Global. Inside This Process, Film Reveals Itself As Acutely Responsive To Both Its Own Marketplace Niche And To Shakespeare's Status As An Icon Moulded According To The Dictates Of Late Capitalist Modes Of Consumption.--book Jacket. 1. Screening The Stage -- 2. Sequelizing Shakespeare -- 3. The Local And The Global -- 4. Racial Identities, Global Economies -- 5. Remembrance, Holocaust, Globalization -- 6. Spirituality/meaning/shakespeare -- 7. Post-millennial Parody. Mark Thornton Burnett. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 193-212) And Index. This polemical study contends that Shakespeare films produced on both sides of the millennium respond to globalization by reflecting upon the changing circumstances of their own cultural locations. Examining art-house works as well as media representations, grass-roots creations and Hollywood statements, Burnett argues for the crucial place of Shakespeare in contemporary debates about hybridity and identity, religion and ethnicity, and spirituality and difference. Performing more than one task simultaneously, the productions investigated here initiate and sequelize, and authenticate and demythologize, emptying out the regional as they restore the local within a grammar of the global. Inside this process, film reveals itself as acutely responsive to both its own marketplace niche and to Shakespeare's status as an icon moulded according to the dictates of late capitalist modes of consumption Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 List of Figures......Page 9 Acknowledgements......Page 11 Introduction......Page 14 1 Screening the Stage......Page 20 2 Sequelizing Shakespeare......Page 41 3 The Local and the Global......Page 60 4 Racial Identities, Global Economies......Page 79 5 Remembrance, Holocaust, Globalization......Page 100 6 Spirituality/Meaning/Shakespeare......Page 120 7 Post-Millennial Parody......Page 142 Epilogue......Page 171 Notes......Page 180 Bibliography......Page 206 B......Page 226 C......Page 227 D......Page 228 G......Page 229 H......Page 230 I......Page 231 K......Page 232 M......Page 233 N......Page 234 P......Page 235 R......Page 236 S......Page 237 W......Page 239 Z......Page 240 Shakespeare on film, whether at the cinema, on television or in an online environment, has established itself as an important cultural commentator. This study examines Shakespeare films produced on both sides of the millennium, identifying in them key global debates concerned with race and ethnicity, representation and reproduction, spirituality and religion, and the place of the new media