'Hamlet' and World Cinema

ISBN-13: 9781316501306 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 307 str.

Mark Thornton Burnett

Opis

Reveals a rich cinematic history, discussing Hamlet films from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.

Recenzje

'The book 'makes a case for Hamlet as the world's most frequently filmed text' and shows how transpositions of the play to Brazilian book review 185 favelas, a compound in northern Ghana, and Tang Dynasty China (to name justthree) have illuminated the politics of race, gender, and class in these settings … 'Hamlet' and World Cinema privilege specific plays, allowing them to display the multiplicity these works have come to represent …' Sally Barnden, Shakespeare Bulletin

Spis treści

1. Hamlet, cinema and the histories of Western Europe; 2. Thematising place: Hamlet, cinema and Africa; 3. Hamlet and the moment of Brazilian cinema; 4. Pairing the cinematic Prince: Hamlet, China and Japan; 5. Hamlet and Indian cinemas: regional paradigms; 6. Gendering borders: Hamlet and the cinemas of Turkey and Iran; 7. Materialising Hamlet in the cinemas of Russia, Central and Eastern Europe.