Shakespeare, The Movie II: Popularizing the

Following on from the phenomenally successfulShakespeare, the Movie, this volume brings together an invaluable new collection of essays on cinematic Shakespeare's in the 1990s and beyond. Shakespeare, the Movie II: *focuses for the first time on the impact of post-colonialism, globalization and digital film on recent adaptations of Shakespeare *takes in not only US and UK films but adaptations of Shakespeare in Europe and the Asian Diaspora *explores a wide range of film, television, video and DVD adaptations, from Almereyda'sHamletto animated tales, via Baz Luhrmann, Kenneth Branagh 1990sMacbeth, to name but a few *offers fresh insight into the issues surrounding Shakespeare on film, such as the interplay between originals and adaptations, the appropriations of popular culture, questions of spectatorship, and the impact of popularization on the canonical status of 'the Bard'. *Combining three key essays from the earlier collection with exciting new work fromleading contributors,Shakespeare the Movie IIoffers sixteen fascinating essays. It is quite simply a must-read for any student of Shakespeare, film, media or cultural studies.

List of illustrations

vii

Notes on contributors

ix

Introduction: Editors' cut

1

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RICHARD BURT AND LYNDA E. BOOSE

1 Shakespeare, "Glo-cali-zation," race, and the small screens of post-popular culture

14

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RICHARD BURT

2 "Remember me": technologies of memory in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet

37

(19)

KATHERINE ROWE

3 James Dean meets the pirate's daughter: passion and parody in William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet and Shakespeare in Love

56

(16)

MICHAEL ANDEREGG

4 Sure can sing and dance: minstrelsy, the star system, and the post-postcoloniality of Kenneth Branagh's Love's Labour's Lost and Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night

72

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KATHERINE EGGERT

5 Race-ing Othello, re-engendering white-out, II

89

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BARBARA HODGDON

6 Shakespeare in the age of post-mechanical reproduction: sexual and electronic magic in Prospero's Books

105

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PETER S. DONALDSON

7 A Shrew for the times, revisited

120

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DIANA E. HENDERSON

8 Mixing media and animating Shakespeare tales

140

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LAURIE OSBORNE

9 Nostalgia and theatricality: the fate of the Shakespearean stage in the Midsummer Night's Dreams of Hoffman, Noble, and Edzard

154

(19)

DOUGLAS LANIER

10 "Top of the world, ma": Richard III and cinematic convention

173

(13)

JAMES N. LOEHLIN

11 Shakespeare and the street: Pacino's Looking for Richard, Bedford's Street King, and the common understanding

186

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THOMAS CARTELLI

12 The family tree motel: subliming Shakespeare in My Own Private Idaho

200

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SUSAN WISEMAN

13 War is mud: Branagh's Dirty Harry V and the types of political ambiguity

213

(18)

DONALD K. HEDRICK

14 Out damned Scot: dislocating Macbeth in transnational film and media culture

231

(21)

COURTNEY LEHMANN

15 Dogme Shakespeare 95: European cinema, anti-Hollywood sentiment, and the Bard

252

(13)

AMY SCOTT-DOUGLASS

16 Shakespeare and Asia in postdiasporic cinemas: spin-offs and citations of the plays from Bollywood to Hollywood

265

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RICHARD BURT

References

304

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Filmography

323

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Index

329

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