Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siecle

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • Mark Thornton Burnett, Ramona Wray

   Pages 1-9

3. The Book on the Screen: Shakespeare Films and Textual Culture

   • Andrew Murphy

   Pages 10-25

4. The Postmodern Theatre of Paul Mazursky’s Tempest

   • Douglas Bruster

   Pages 26-39

5. Camp Richard III and the Burdens of (Stage/Film) History

   • Stephen M. Buhler

   Pages 40-57

6. Shakespeare Meets The Godfather: The Postmodern Populism of Al Pacino’s Looking for Richard

   • Neil Sinyard

   Pages 58-72

7. Urban Dystopias: Reapproaching Christine Edzard’s As You Like It

   • Amelia Marriette

   Pages 73-88

8. Impressions of Fantasy: Adrian Noble’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

   • Mark Thornton Burnett

   Pages 89-101

9. ‘The Way the World is Now’: Love in the Troma Zone

   • Margaret Jane Kidnie

   Pages 102-120

10. ‘These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends’: Baz Luhrmann’s Millennial Shakespeare

    • James N. Loehlin

    Pages 121-136

11. ‘Either for tragedy, comedy’: Attitudes to Hamlet in Kenneth Branagh’s In the Bleak Midwinter and Hamlet

    • Emma Smith

    Pages 137-146

12. The End of History and the Last Man: Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet

    • Julie Sanders

    Pages 147-164

13. From the Horse’s Mouth: Branagh on the Bard

    • Ramona Wray, Mark Thornton Burnett

    Pages 165-178

14. Virgin and Ape, Venetian and Infidel: Labellings of Otherness in Oliver Parker’s Othello

    • Judith Buchanan

    Pages 179-202

15. Shakespeare in Love and the End of the Shakespearean: Academic and Mass Culture Constructions of Literary Authorship

    • Richard Burt

    Pages 203-231

16. Back Matter

    Pages 232-244

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The essays in this volume read the Shakespeare films of the 1990s as key instruments with which western culture confronts the anxieties attendant upon the transition from one century to another. Such films as Hamlet, Love's Labour's Lost, Othello, Shakespeare in Love and William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet , the contributors maintain, engage with some of the most pressing concerns of the present, apocalyptic condition - familial crisis, social estrangement, urban blight, cultural hybridity, literary authority, the impact of technology and the end of history. The volume includes an exclusive interview with Kenneth Branagh.

• culture
• film
• technology

• The Queen’s University of Belfast, UK

  Mark Thornton Burnett, Ramona Wray

DOUGLAS BRUSTER Assistant Professor of English, University of Texas, Austin JUDITH BUCHANAN Lecturer in Film Studies, English Faculty, University of Oxford STEPHEN M. BUHLER Associate Professor of English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln RICHARD BURT Professor of English, University of Massachusetts PETER HOLLAND Director and Fellow of Shakespeare Studies, Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon MARGARET JANE KIDNIE Lecturer in English, South Bank University, London JAMES N. LOEHLIN Associate Professor of English, University of Texas, Austin AMELIA MARRIETTE Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham ANDREW MURPHY Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews JULIE SANDERS Lecturer in English, Keele University NEIL SINYARD Head of English, University of Hull EMMA SMITH Fellow, Hertford College and Lecturer in English, University of Oxford

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