Screen LibrarySpectral Shakespeares media adaptations in the twenty-first century /
Spectral Shakespeares is an illuminating exploration of experimental adaptations of Shakespeare on film, TV, and the web. Drawing on adaptation studies, media theory, and Derrida's work, the "Shakespeare" that emerges from these adaptations is a fragmentary and mediatized presence tha...
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| Language: | English |
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Reproducing Shakespeare
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Spectral Shakespeares is an illuminating exploration of experimental adaptations of Shakespeare on film, TV, and the web. Drawing on adaptation studies, media theory, and Derrida's work, the "Shakespeare" that emerges from these adaptations is a fragmentary and mediatized presence that leaves a mark on our contemporary mediascape. "Calbi's writing constitutes theoretical criticism at its best. Moving between the BBC's 'Shakespea(Re)-Told' season, arthouse films, and social networking discussion, as well as other cultural products and practices, the author showcases a rich array of ghostly renderings of the Bard. By turns seductive and heretical, and as arresting as it is intriguing, Spectral Shakespeares ranges ambitiously across time and space to argue passionately and persuasively for the crucial significance of Shakespeare's multi-layered and multi-mediatized afterlives." - Mark Thornton Burnett, Professor, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland "International in scope yet well-focused, theoretically complex yet admirably lucid, Maurizio Calbi's Spectral Shakespeares traces how Shakespeare has been disseminated and fundamentally transformed by myriad new media in the twenty-first century. The result is an utterly dazzling, state-of-the-art discussion that recasts the study of Shakespearean adaptation from the ground up, challenging us to take fuller account of the ways in which our Shakespeare is inescapably telemediated and to confront the full implications of Shakespeare's ghostly nature as we watch his image flicker across our screens. The chapter on 'Such Tweet Sorrow' is particularly outstanding as a model for considering how new formats extend and reshape what counts as 'Shakespeare' in the contemporary mediascape. An instant classic in the field, and absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in Shakespeare's cultural afterlife in the new century." - Douglas Lanier, Professor of English, University of New Hampshire, USA. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230338753. |
| Carrier Form: | 252 p. : 9 b&w, ill. |
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9780230338753 9781137063762 : 1137063769 : |
| CLC: | I561.073 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Shakespeare, Spectro-Textuality, Spectro-Mediality 1. The State of the Kitchen: Incorporation and "Animanomaly" in Scotland, PA and the BBC Shakespeare Retold Macbeth 2. Shakespearean Retreats: Spectrality, Survival, and Auto-Immunity in Kristian Levring's The King Is Alive 3. Reiterating Othello: Spectral Media and the Rhetoric of Silence in Alexander Abela's Souli 4. 'This Is My Home, Too': Migration, Spectrality, and Hospitality in Roberta Torre's Sud Side Stori 5. "Shakespeare in the Extreme": Ghosts and Remediation in Alexander Fodor's Hamlet 6. 'Restless Ecstasy': Addiction, Reiteration, and Mediality in Klaus Knoesel's Rave Macbeth 7. 'He speaks...Or Rather...He Tweets': The Specter of the "Original," Media, and 'Media-Crossed' Love in Such Tweet Sorrow. |