The Reel Shakespeare: Alternative Cinema and TheoryLisa S. Starks, Courtney Lehmann This collection models an approach to Shakespeare and cinema that is concerned with the other side of Shakespeare's Hollywood celebrity, taking the reader on a practical and theoretical tour through important, non-mainstream films and the oppositional messages they convey. The collection includes essays on early silent adaptations of 'Hamlet', Greenway's 'Prospero's Books', Godard's 'King Lear', Hall's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', Taymor's 'Titus', Polanski's 'Macbeth', Welles 'Chimes at Midnight', and Van Sant's 'My Own Private Idaho'. |
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... opening scene , Ophelia is already quite mad , and people are rushing pell - mell around the court . Hamlet spots the ghost of his father out in a field , shown on the upper left of the frame , while Ophelia strolls by a stream . This ...
... opening scene , Ophelia is already quite mad , and people are rushing pell - mell around the court . Hamlet spots the ghost of his father out in a field , shown on the upper left of the frame , while Ophelia strolls by a stream . This ...
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... opening of his Othello ( 1952 ) . Svend Gade's Hamlet : The Drama of Vengeance ( 1920 ) , starring the celebrated Danish - born film actress Asta Nielsen as a cross - dressed prince , became the boldest silent reinvention . In many ...
... opening of his Othello ( 1952 ) . Svend Gade's Hamlet : The Drama of Vengeance ( 1920 ) , starring the celebrated Danish - born film actress Asta Nielsen as a cross - dressed prince , became the boldest silent reinvention . In many ...
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... opening , in contrast to many contemporary productions , pre- sents a social world in which the war between the sexes β the Amazono- machy referred to in Theseus's first lines - has been decisively won by the males . Resistance is muted ...
... opening , in contrast to many contemporary productions , pre- sents a social world in which the war between the sexes β the Amazono- machy referred to in Theseus's first lines - has been decisively won by the males . Resistance is muted ...
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... opening is not merely or unreservedly " radical . " The critique of gender relations that is offered can be traced back , in one line of descent , to Engels on the family , but it is also consonant with more conservative critiques of ...
... opening is not merely or unreservedly " radical . " The critique of gender relations that is offered can be traced back , in one line of descent , to Engels on the family , but it is also consonant with more conservative critiques of ...
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... opening of Hall's Dream , avant - garde style serves a critical function , in the forest its function shifts as the " constructive de- vices " of the avant - garde come to be associated with the magic of the fair- ies , the magic of the ...
... opening of Hall's Dream , avant - garde style serves a critical function , in the forest its function shifts as the " constructive de- vices " of the avant - garde come to be associated with the magic of the fair- ies , the magic of the ...
Contents
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Voice and Gaze in JeanLuc Godards π²πππ π³πππ | 59 |
The Incorporation of Word as Image in Peter Greenaways π·ππππππππ π©ππππ | 95 |
Powers of Horror in Julie Taymors πππππ | 121 |
Mediating Witchcraft in Polanski and Shakespeare | 143 |
Orson Welless πͺπππππ ππ π΄ππ
πππππ and Gus Van Sants π΄π πΆππ π·ππππππ π°π
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Close Encounters in the Shakespearean Classroom | 191 |
Teaching against Shakespeares Author Function | 212 |
A Selective Bibliography of Criticism | 229 |
Notes on Contributors | 288 |
Index | 291 |
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Page 108 - No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall To make this contract grow ; but barren hate, Sour-eyed disdain and discord shall bestrew The union of your bed with weeds so loathly That you shall hate it both : therefore take heed, As Hymen's lamps shall light you.β
Page 66 - A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears : see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?β
Page 26 - To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane, But that the fear of something after death Murders the innocent sleep, Great nature's second course, And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune Than fly to others that we know not of.β
Page 215 - We know now that a text is not a line of words releasing a single 'theologicalβ
Page 52 - What I want is a strange conjunction with you - ' he said quietly; 'not meeting and mingling - you are quite right - but an equilibrium, a pure balance of two single beings - as the stars balance each other.β
Page 85 - I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack. β She's gone for ever ! β I know when one is dead, and when one lives ; She's dead as earth. β Lend me a looking-glass ; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives.β
Page 9 - And so art is everywhere, since artifice is at the very heart of reality . And so art is dead, not only because its critical transcendence is gone, but because reality itself, entirely impregnated by an aesthetic which is inseparable from its own structure, has been confused with its own image.β
Page 82 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was!β
Page 82 - Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.β