Apocalyptic Shakespeare : essays on visions of chaos and revelation in recent film adaptations / edited by Melissa Croteau and Carolyn Jess-Cooke
- Published
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2009]
- Copyright Date
- ©2009
- Physical Description
- viii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Additional Creators
- Croteau, Melissa and Jess-Cooke, Carolyn, 1978-
- Contents
- Introduction. Beginning at the ends / Melissa Croteau -- 1. The "great doom's image" : apocalyptic trajectories in contemporary Shakespearean filmmaking / Ramona Wray -- 2. Apocalyptic paternalism, family values, and the war of the cinemas; or, how Shakespeare became posthuman / Courtney Lehmann -- 3. Liberty's taken, or how "captive women may be cleansed and used" : Julie Taymor's Titus and 9/11 / Kim Fedderson and J. Michael Richardson -- 4. Post-apocalyptic spaces in Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet / Richard Vela -- 5. Celluloid revelations : millennial culture and dialogic "pastiche" in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet (2000) / Melissa Croteau -- 6. The revenger's tragedy in 2002 : Alex Cox's punk apocalypse / Gretchen E. Minton -- 7. The plague in filmed versions of Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night / Carl James Grindley -- 8. The politics of apocalypse : interrogating conversion in Mel Gibson's The passion of the Christ and Michael Radford's The merchant of Venice / Adrian Streete -- 9. Disney's "war efforts" : The lion king and Education for death, or, Shakespeare made easy for your apocalyptic convenience / Alfredo Michel Modenessi -- 10. Four funerals and a bedding : Freud and the post-apocalyptic apocalypse of Jean-Luc Godard's King Lear / Anthony R. Guneratne -- 11. "The promised end" of cinema : portraits of apocalypse in post-millennial Shakespearean film / Carolyn Jess-Cooke.
- Summary
- "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-scènes, disorienting imagery, and topsy-turvy plots of these films, using apocalypse as a theoretical and thematic lens"--Provided by publisher.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780786433926 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0786433922 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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