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Apocalyptic Shakespeare : essays on visions of chaos and revelation in recent film adaptations / edited by Melissa Croteau and Carolyn Jess-Cooke.
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Author
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Date published
2009
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Publisher
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland Co., 2009.
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Subject
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Film and video adaptations.
Apocalyptic literature History and criticism
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Accession number
83449965
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Class
Reading Room - 72.86/APO
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ISBN
9780786433926 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Language
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Physical description
viii, 235 p. ; 23 cm.
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Bibliography, etc. note: Includes bibliographical references and index. Formatted contents note: Contents: The "great doom's image": apocalyptic trajectories in contemporary Shakespearean filmmaking / Ramona Wray -- Apocalyptic paternalism, family values, and the war of the cinemas: or, how Shakespeare became posthuman / Courtney Lehmann -- Post-apocalyptic spaces in Baz Luhrman's William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet / Richard Vela -- Celluloid revelations: millennial culture and dialogic "pastiche" in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet (2000) / Melissa Croteau -- The plague in filmed versions of Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth night / Carl James Grindley. Uk-SuSCL. Summary, etc: "Films covered include Titus, William Shakespeare's Romeo Juliet, Almereyda's Hamlet, Revengers Tragedy, Twelfth Night, The Passion of the Christ, Radford's The Merchant of Venice, The Lion King, and Godard's King Lear, among others. Essays chart the apocalyptic mise-en-sce`nes, disorienting imagery, and topsy-turvy plots of these films, using apocalypse as a theoretical and thematic lens"--cover.