Almost Shakespeare

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 lowa 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 question of whether a contemporary production is influenced by Shakespeare or by an earlier piece that influenced Shakespeare is also addressed. 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.

ISBN 0786419091   Pages 200 ISBN13 9780786419098 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher McFarland & Co Inc   Weight (grammes) 295 Imprint McFarland & Co Inc   Published in Jefferson, NC Format Paperback   Height (mm) 231 Publication date 30 Nov 2004   Width (mm) 153 Library of Congress 2004017517   Spine width (mm) 12 DEWEY 791.436   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

		Introduction by James R. Keller and Leslie Stratyner		1
1		The politics of culture : the play's the thing by Patrick Finn		7
2		Have we really been here before? : imitation as originality in Gus Van Sant's My own private Idaho by Andrew Barnaby		22
3		Shakespeare transposed : the British stage on the post-colonial screen by Parmita Kapadia		42
4		Suture, Shakespeare, and race : or, what is our cultural debt to the bard? by Ayanna Thompson		57
5		Cinema in the round : self-reflexivity in Tim Blake Nelson's O by Eric C. Brown		73
6		Sex, lies, videotape - and Othello by R. S. White		86
7		"The time is out of joint" : Withnail and I and historical melancholia by Aaron Kelly and David Salter		99
8		Horatio : the first CSI by Jody Malcolm		113
9		Teen scenes: recognizing Shakespeare in teen film by Ariane M. Balizet		122
10		"An aweful rule" : safe schools, hard canons, and Shakespeare's loose heirs by Melissa J. Jones		137
11		Prospero's pharmacy : Peter Greenaway and the critics play Shakespeare's mimetic game by Dan DeWeese		155
12		Shakespeare film and television derivatives : a bibliography by Jose Ramon Diaz Fernandez		169

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