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Shakespeare, Bakhtin, and Film : A Dialogic Lens /

This book explores how Bakhtin s ideas can illuminate the compelling but uneasy fusion of Shakespeare and cinema. With a wide variety of tones, languages, cultural orientations, and thematic concerns, film directors have updated, translated, transposed, fragmented, parodied, and geographically re-si...

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Main Authors: Harrison, Keith
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Culture > Study and teaching
Motion pictures
Film genres
Cultural and Media Studies
Film Theory
Movie and TV Adaptations
Close Reading
Genre
Global Cinema
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59743-0
Summary: This book explores how Bakhtin s ideas can illuminate the compelling but uneasy fusion of Shakespeare and cinema. With a wide variety of tones, languages, cultural orientations, and thematic concerns, film directors have updated, translated, transposed, fragmented, parodied, and geographically re-situated Shakespeare. Keith Harrison illustrates how Bakhtin s interlinked writings in various fields can fruitfully be applied to an understanding of how the ongoing responsiveness of filmmakers to Shakespeare s historically remote words can shape self-expressive acts of co-authoring in another med
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (IX, 244 pages)
ISBN: 9783319597430
Index Number: PN1993
CLC: J90-02
Contents: 1. William Shakespeare and Mikhail Bakhtin: Filming Dialogically -- 2. Chronotopes and Categories of Shakespeare-inflected Films -- 3. Chronotopic Images and Cinematic Dialogism with Shakespeare -- 4. Kurosawa, Kozintsev, Kaurism ki, and Almereyda: Hamlet and Transnational Dialogism -- 5. Withnail and I: The Ghost of Shakespeare -- 6. Bakhtinian Polyphony in Godard s King Lear -- 7. Shakespeare Shaping in Dogme95 Films, and Bakhtin s Theory of Tragedy -- 8. Scotland, PA: Parody, Nostalgia, Irony, and Menippean Satire -- 9. Romeo and Juliet, Polyglossia, and the Romantic Politics of Deepa Meh

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