Shakespeare, The Movie II: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, Video and DVD

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 8
Notes on contributors......Page 10
Introduction: Editors' cut......Page 14
Shakespeare, ~Glo-cali-zation,~ race, and the small screens of post-popular culture......Page 27
~Remember me~: technologies of memory in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet......Page 50
James Dean meets the pirate's daughter: passion and parody in William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet and Shakespeare in Love......Page 69
Sure can sing and dance: minstrelsy, the star system, and the post-postcoloniality of Kenneth Branagh's Love's Labour's Lost and Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night......Page 85
Race-ing Othello, re-engendering white-out, II......Page 102
Shakespeare in the age of post-mechanical reproduction: sexual and electronic magic in Prospero's Books......Page 118
A Shrew for the times, revisited......Page 133
Mixing media and animating Shakespeare tales......Page 153
Nostalgia and theatricality: the fate of the Shakespearean stage in the Midsummer Night's Dreams of Hoffman, Noble, and Edzard......Page 167
~Top of the world, ma~: Richard III and cinematic convention......Page 186
Shakespeare and the street: Pacino's Looking for Richard, Bedford's Street King, and the common understanding......Page 199
The family tree motel: subliming Shakespeare in My Own Private Idaho......Page 213
War is mud: Branagh's Dirty Harry V and the types of political ambiguity......Page 226
Out damned Scot: dislocating Macbeth in transnational film and media culture......Page 244
Dogme Shakespeare 95: European cinema, anti-Hollywood sentiment, and the Bard......Page 265
Shakespeare and Asia in postdiasporic cinemas: spin-offs and citations of the plays from Bollywood to Hollywood......Page 278
References......Page 317
Filmography......Page 336
Index......Page 342