{"product_id":"new-wave-shakespeare-on-screen-isbn-9780745633923","title":"New Wave Shakespeare on Screen","description":"The past fifteen years have witnessed a diverse group of experiments in ‘staging’ Shakespeare on film. New Wave Shakespeare on Screen introduces and applies the new analytic techniques and language that are required to make sense of this new wave. \u003cp\u003eDrawing on developments in Shakespeare studies, performance studies, and media studies, the book integrates text-based and screen-based approaches in ways that will be accessible to teachers and students, as well as scholars. The study maps a critical vocabulary for interpreting Shakespeare film; addresses script-to-screen questions about authority and performativity; outlines varied approaches to adaptation such as revival, recycling, allusion, and sampling; parses sound as well as visual effects; and explores the cross-pollination between film and other media, from ancient to cutting-edge. New Wave Shakespeare on Screen emphasizes how rich the payoffs can be when Shakespeareans turn their attention to film adaptations as texts: aesthetically complex, historically situated, and as demanding in their own right as the playtexts they renovate.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorks discussed include pop culture films like Billy Morrisette’s Scotland, PA; televised updatings like the ITV Othello; and art-house films such as Julie Taymor’s Titus, Al Pacino’s Looking for Richard, Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet, and Kristian Levering’s The King is Alive. These films reframe the playtexts according to a variety of extra-Shakespearean interests, inviting viewers back to them in fresh ways.\u003c\/p\u003e  Plays and Films Featured in Chapters. \u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: New Wave Shakespeare on and off Screen.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Beyond Branagh and the BBC.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003emultiplying canons.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Adaptation as a Cultural Process.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003econceptual and critical resources • revival • recycling.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Hamlet Rewound.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eanachronism • tradition and “modernity” • remediation and memory • new media • underground cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Colliding Time and Space in Julie Taymor’s Titus.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eallusion • interpolation • citational environments • conceptual art • ghosting • surrogation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003enew media • expressionist film.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Vernacular Shakespeare.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eparody, burlesque, and masquerade,• docudrama • popular culture sound • riffing • sampling.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Channeling Othello.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003etelevisuality • surrogation • character function and effect • voiceover • race and performance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Surviving Shakespeare: Kristian Levring’s The King is Alive.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003edocumentary and experimental film • voiceover • cultural memory • character function and effect • subtitles • substitution and translation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorks Cited.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFilms, Videos, DVDs, Television Cited.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResources.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Tom Cartelli and Katherine Rowe are outstanding guides to the fascinating (and often daunting) cinematic world of ‘New Wave Shakespeare.’ Rich in insight and elegantly argued, this is by far the best book I’ve read about Shakespeare on film.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Shapiro, \u003ci\u003eColumbia University,\u003c\/i\u003e author of \u003ci\u003e1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In case anyone thought the tide was ebbing on Shakespeare and film, here are Cartelli and Rowe riding the ‘new wave’ like pro surfers. As brilliant as film analysts as in their understanding of Shakespeare and his current cultural contexts, they are expert guides to a fascinating range of film adaptations and to subtle and provocative ways of thinking about the motive to adapt Shakespeare, about the strategies these films use, and about the theoretical models we can use to understand them. I learned much from every chapter – and so will my students as they engage in my courses with all that this book so clearly and helpfully encourages them to consider.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Holland, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Notre Dame\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Though now well established as an important branch of Shakespeare research and instruction, the study of Shakespeare on film has to keep moving to keep abreast of technological change, fresh talent and new audiences. By focusing on work that is contemporary, innovative and experimental, Cartelli and Rowe shift the paradigms of Shakespeare on film, and facilitate new interactions between critical, cultural, textual and media studies.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGraham Holderness, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Hertfordshire,\u003c\/i\u003e author of \u003ci\u003eVisual Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eThomas Cartelli\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English and NEH Professor of Humanities, Muhlenberg College. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatherine Rowe\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at Bryn Mawr.\u003c\/p\u003e  The past fifteen years have witnessed a diverse group of experiments in ‘staging’ Shakespeare on film. \u003ci\u003eNew Wave Shakespeare on Screen\u003c\/i\u003e introduces and applies the new analytic techniques and language that are required to make sense of this new wave. \u003cp\u003eDrawing on developments in Shakespeare studies, performance studies, and media studies, the book integrates text-based and screen-based approaches in ways that will be accessible to teachers and students, as well as scholars. The study maps a critical vocabulary for interpreting Shakespeare film; addresses script-to-screen questions about authority and performativity; outlines varied approaches to adaptation such as revival, recycling, allusion, and sampling; parses sound as well as visual effects; and explores the cross-pollination between film and other media, from ancient to cutting-edge. \u003ci\u003eNew Wave Shakespeare on Screen\u003c\/i\u003e emphasizes how rich the payoffs can be when Shakespeareans turn their attention to film adaptations as texts: aesthetically complex, historically situated, and as demanding in their own right as the playtexts they renovate.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorks discussed include pop culture films like Billy Morrisette’s Scotland, PA; televised updatings like the ITV Othello; and art-house films such as Julie Taymor’s Titus, Al Pacino’s Looking for Richard, Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet, and Kristian Levering’s The King is Alive. 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