Shakespeare After Mass Media

ISBN-13: 9780312294540 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 356 str.

Richard Burt

Opis

Shakespeare in mass media particularly film, video, and television is arguably the fastest growing research agenda in Shakespeare studies. Shakespeare after Mass Media provides both students and scholars with the most comprehensive resource available on the market for studying the extraordinary afterlife of Shakespeare's plays in a wide range of media. From marketing to electronic Shakespeares, comics to romance novels, Star Trek to Kenneth Branagh, radio and popular music to Bartlett's Quotations, the contributors explore the contemporary cultural significance of Shakespeare with theoretical sophistication and accessible writing.

Recenzje

'...a lively and informative treatise on how mass culture, through the mass media, has manipulated, abused, and empowered Shakespeare.' - Choice

Spis treści

PART ONE: QUESTIONS OF SHAKESPEARE'S CULTURAL AUTHORITY To e- or Not To e-? Disposing of Shakespeare in the Age of Electronic Mass Media; R.Burt Bardguides of the New Universe: Niche Marketing and the Cultural Logic of Late Shakespeareanism; D.K.Hedrick 'In Fair Verona': Media, Spectacle, and Performance in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ; P.Donaldson We are the Makers of Manners: The Branagh Phenomenon; M.Thorton Burnett Shakespeare: The Theme Park; D. E.Henderson Harlequin Presents: That '70s Shakespeare and Beyond; L.Osborne Suggested for Mature Readers? Deconstructing Shakespearean Value in Comic Books; J.Heuman & R.Burt The Shatnerification of Shakespeare: Star Trek and the Commonplace Tradition; C.Dionne WSHX: Shakespeare and American Radio; D.Lanier Shakespeare, Bard of Avon; F.Teague Reviving Juliet, Repackaging Romeo: Transformations of Character in Popular Music Lyrics; S.M.Buhler The Making of Authorships: Transversal Navigation in the Wake of Hamlet ; D.J.Hopkins & B.Reynolds Bartlett's Evolving Shakespeare; H.Whall Afterword: Shakespeare and the Holocaust: Julie Taymor's Titus is Beautiful, or Shakesploi Meets the Camp; R.Burt

O autorze

Richard Burt is Professor of English and Film and Media Studies at the University of Florida, USA.