William Shakespeare's Macbeth on Film. From Interpretation to Revision

ISBN-13: 9783659675386 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 140 str.

Gheorghiu Oana-Celia

Opis

The work discusses four very different filmic productions inspired by William Shakespeares Macbeth: Roman Polanskis The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971, USA/UK), Geoffrey Wrights Macbeth (2006, Australia), Billy Morrissettes Scotland, PA (2001, USA) and Tom Magills Mickey B (2007, Northern Ireland). Drawing on the conceptual frames provided by psychoanalytical and feminist criticism as well as by the textual analysis of film, it aims at filling a gap in the study of Macbeth films - usually ignored or marginalised by Shakespearean scholars and film critics - being thus intended as a modest contribution to the vast domain of Shakespeare film criticism. Emphasis is laid on the films exploration of the meanings of the Shakespearean hypotext and on their concern with controversial contemporary issues, such as violence, pornography, homosexuality, Satanism, drug abuse, etc.

O autorze

Oana-Celia Gheorghiu holds an M.A. degree in Translation Studies. She is currently completing her doctoral thesis on "Literary Representations of Politics and the Media on the Contemporary Stage". Her research interests are: fiction and reality, contemporary literature, but also William Shakespeare and his reception in postmodernity.