Shakespeare, Cinema, Counter-Culture: Appropriation and Inversion

ISBN-13: 9780367867799 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 200 str.

Ailsa Ferguson

Opis

Addressing for the first time Shakespeare’s place in counter-cultural cinema, this book examines and theorizes counter-hegemonic, postmodern, and post-punk Shakespeare in late 20^th and early 21^st century film. Drawing on a diverse range of case studies, Grant Ferguson presents an interdisciplinary approach that offers new t

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Spis treści

CONTENTS

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One: (Post)Punk Shakespeare, carnival and rebellion: The Filth and the Fury and Richard III

Chapter Two: Shakespeare and inversion: My Own Private Idaho and Henry IV parts 1 & 2

Chapter Three: The dance of death: Dogme#4: The King is Alive and King Lear

Chapter Four: Three Hamlets: Festivity and sedition

Prologue: "Hamlet the reformer"

i. Hamlet Liikemaailmassa (or Hamlet Goes Business, Finland, 1987, dir. Aki Kaurismaki)

ii. Festen (The Celebration, 1999, Denmark)

iii. Hamlet (2000, USA, dir. Michael Almereyda)

Bibliography

Filmography

Index

O autorze

Ailsa Grant Ferguson is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of Brighton, UK.