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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... body and voice is not merely a pathological aberration , but the inevitable result of vocal communication : " The moment we enter the symbolic order , an unbridgeable gap separates forever a human body from ' its ' voice . The voice ...
... body and voice is not merely a pathological aberration , but the inevitable result of vocal communication : " The moment we enter the symbolic order , an unbridgeable gap separates forever a human body from ' its ' voice . The voice ...
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... body forms the basis of the body grotesque , as theo- rized by Mikhail Bakhtin , or the female grotesque , as defined by Peter Stallybrass and Mary J. Russo.18 Because the abject is projected onto the maternal body and by extension ...
... body forms the basis of the body grotesque , as theo- rized by Mikhail Bakhtin , or the female grotesque , as defined by Peter Stallybrass and Mary J. Russo.18 Because the abject is projected onto the maternal body and by extension ...
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... body as the monstrous- feminine , the woman - as - victim / monster of the horror film . As Linda Will- iams explains , the victimized body of the woman in horror ends up becom- ing the " monster " itself on a visual level , for " in ...
... body as the monstrous- feminine , the woman - as - victim / monster of the horror film . As Linda Will- iams explains , the victimized body of the woman in horror ends up becom- ing the " monster " itself on a visual level , for " in ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
Reinventing the Prince on Celluloid | 25 |
Modernism and Patriarchy | 43 |
Copyright | |
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