Shakespeare, Bakhtin, and Film: A Dialogic Lens

ISBN-13: 9783319597423 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 263 str.

Keith Harrison

Opis

This book explores how Bakhtin's ideas can illuminate the compelling but uneasy fusion of Shakespeare and cinema.

Spis treści

1. William Shakespeare and Mikhail Bakhtin: Filming Dialogically

2. Chronotopes and Categories of Shakespeare-inflected Films

3. Chronotopic Images and Cinematic Dialogism with Shakespeare

4. Kurosawa, Kozintsev, Kaurismäki, and Almereyda: Hamlet and Transnational Dialogism

5. Withnail and I: The Ghost of Shakespeare

6. Bakhtinian Polyphony in Godard’s King Lear

7. Shakespeare Shaping in Dogme95 Films, and Bakhtin’s Theory of Tragedy

8. Scotland, PA: Parody, Nostalgia, Irony, and Menippean Satire

9. Romeo and Juliet, Polyglossia, and the Romantic Politics of Deepa Mehta’s Water

10. Unfinalizability and Cinematic Shakespeare

O autorze

Keith Harrison is Academic Emeritus of English and Creative Writing & Journalism at Vancouver Island University, Canada. He has written two dozen scholarly essays on a variety of topics and has published five novels, including Eyemouth and Furry Creek. His literary papers are held in Special Collections at The Simon Fraser University Library, Canada.