The essays in this volume read the Shakespeare films of the 1990s as key instruments with which western culture confronts the anxieties attendant upon the transition from one century to another. Such films as Hamlet, Love's Labour's Lost, Othello, Shakespeare in Love and William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet , the contributors maintain, engage with some of the most pressing concerns of the present, apocalyptic condition - familial crisis, social estrangement, urban blight, cultural hybridity, literary authority, the impact of technology and the end of history. The volume includes an exclusive interview with Kenneth Branagh.
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CONTRIBUTORS: Mark Thornton Burnett, Ramona Wray
EAN: 9780333776643
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 454 g
HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2000-04-17
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GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, PERFORMING ARTS / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
WIDTH: 140 cm
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Book Themes:
Performing arts, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Cultural studies
DOUGLAS BRUSTER Assistant Professor of English, University of Texas, AustinJUDITH BUCHANAN Lecturer in Film Studies, English Faculty, University of OxfordSTEPHEN M. BUHLER Associate Professor of English, University of Nebraska-LincolnRICHARD BURT Professor of English, University of MassachusettsPETER HOLLAND Director and Fellow of Shakespeare Studies, Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-AvonMARGARET JANE KIDNIE Lecturer in English, South Bank University, LondonJAMES N. LOEHLIN Associate Professor of English, University of Texas, AustinAMELIA MARRIETTE Shakespeare Institute, University of BirminghamANDREW MURPHY Lecturer in English, University of St AndrewsJULIE SANDERS Lecturer in English, Keele UniversityNEIL SINYARD Head of English, University of HullEMMA SMITH Fellow, Hertford College and Lecturer in English, University of Oxford
