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Paperback. Condition: New. The book presents a systematic method of interpreting Shakespeare film adaptations based on their cinematic genres. Its approach is both scholarly and reader-friendly, and its subject is fundamentally interdisciplinary, combining the findings of Shakespeare scholarship with film and media studies, particularly genre theory. The book is organised into six large chapters, discussing films that form broad generic groups. Part I looks at three genres from the classical Hollywood era (western, melodrama and gangster-noir), while Part II deals with three contemporary blockbuster genres (teen film, undead horror and biopic). Beside a few better-known examples of mainstream cinema, the volume also highlights the Shakespearean elements in several nearly forgotten films, bringing them back to critical attention.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. The book presents a systematic method of interpreting Shakespeare film adaptations based on their cinematic genres. Its approach is both scholarly and reader-friendly, and its subject is fundamentally interdisciplinary, combining the findings of Shakespeare scholarship with film and media studies, particularly genre theory. The book is organised into six large chapters, discussing films that form broad generic groups. Part I looks at three genres from the classical Hollywood era (western, melodrama and gangster-noir), while Part II deals with three contemporary blockbuster genres (teen film, undead horror and biopic). Beside a few better-known examples of mainstream cinema, the volume also highlights the Shakespearean elements in several nearly forgotten films, bringing them back to critical attention.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2018 Palgrave hardcover edition. Unread copy in very good condition. Contents: Chapter 1 is 'Introduction' by Alexa Alice Joubin and Aneta Mancewicz. Chapter 2 is 'Europe Speaks Shakespeare: Karin Beier's 1996 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Multilingual Performance and the Myth of Shakespeare's Linguistic Transcendence' by Bettina Boecker. Chapter 3 is 'The Myth of Shakespearean Authenticity: Neoliberalism and Humanistic Shakespeare' by Marcela Kostihova. Chapter 4 is 'Shamanistic Shakespeare: Korea's Colonization of Hamlet' by Kevin A. Quarmby. Chapter 5 is 'Ludwig Tieck and the Development of the Romantic Myth of a 'German Shakespeare'' by Dan Venning. Chapter 6 is 'Shakespeare Beyond the Trenches: The German Myth of unser Shakespeare in Transnational Perspective' by Benedict Schofield. Chapter 7 is 'Tupi or Not Tupi, That Is the Question: Brazilian Mythical Afterlives of Shakespeare's Hamlet' by Anna Stegh Camati. Chapter 8 is 'Hamlet and the Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Myth of Interventionist Shakespeare Performance' by Emily Oliver. Chapter 9 is 'Denmark's a Prison: Appropriating Modern Myths of Hamlet After 1989 in Lin Zhaohua's Hamulaite and Jan Klata's H.' by Saffron Vickers Walkling. Chapter 10 is 'Hamlet in Times of War: Two Appropriations of Shakespeare's Tragedy in Former Yugoslavia in the 1990s' by Alexandra Portmann. Chapter 11 is 'Come, Let's Away to Prison: Local and Global Myths, and 'Political Shakespeare' in Twenty-First-Century Russia' by Aleksandra Sakowska. Chapter 12 is 'Localizing a Global Myth: Contemporary Film Adaptations of King Lear' by Kinga Foldvary. Chapter 13 is 'Shakespeare Sanitized for the Present: Political Myths in Recent Adaptations' by Frank Widar Brevik. Chapter 14 is 'The Myths of Bold Visual and Conservative Verbal Interpretations of Shakespeare on Today's Japanese Stage' by Ryuta Minami. Chapter 15 is 'Afterword: Shakespeare and Myth' by Michael Dobson.…

Paperback. Condition: New. The book presents a systematic method of interpreting Shakespeare film adaptations based on their cinematic genres. Its approach is both scholarly and reader-friendly, and its subject is fundamentally interdisciplinary, combining the findings of Shakespeare scholarship with film and media studies, particularly genre theory. The book is organised into six large chapters, discussing films that form broad generic groups. Part I looks at three genres from the classical Hollywood era (western, melodrama and gangster-noir), while Part II deals with three contemporary blockbuster genres (teen film, undead horror and biopic). Beside a few better-known examples of mainstream cinema, the volume also highlights the Shakespearean elements in several nearly forgotten films, bringing them back to critical attention.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. The book presents a systematic method of interpreting Shakespeare film adaptations based on their cinematic genres. Its approach is both scholarly and reader-friendly, and its subject is fundamentally interdisciplinary, combining the findings of Shakespeare scholarship with film and media studies, particularly genre theory. The book is organised into six large chapters, discussing films that form broad generic groups. Part I looks at three genres from the classical Hollywood era (western, melodrama and gangster-noir), while Part II deals with three contemporary blockbuster genres (teen film, undead horror and biopic). Beside a few better-known examples of mainstream cinema, the volume also highlights the Shakespearean elements in several nearly forgotten films, bringing them back to critical attention.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. The book presents a systematic method of interpreting Shakespeare film adaptations based on their cinematic genres. Its approach is both scholarly and reader-friendly, and its subject is fundamentally interdisciplinary, combining the findings of Shakespeare scholarship with film and media studies, particularly genre theory. The book is organised into six large chapters, discussing films that form broad generic groups. Part I looks at three genres from the classical Hollywood era (western, melodrama and gangster-noir), while Part II deals with three contemporary blockbuster genres (teen film, undead horror and biopic). Beside a few better-known examples of mainstream cinema, the volume also highlights the Shakespearean elements in several nearly forgotten films, bringing them back to critical attention.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. The book presents a systematic method of interpreting Shakespeare film adaptations based on their cinematic genres. Its approach is both scholarly and reader-friendly, and its subject is fundamentally interdisciplinary, combining the findings of Shakespeare scholarship with film and media studies, particularly genre theory. The book is organised into six large chapters, discussing films that form broad generic groups. Part I looks at three genres from the classical Hollywood era (western, melodrama and gangster-noir), while Part II deals with three contemporary blockbuster genres (teen film, undead horror and biopic). Beside a few better-known examples of mainstream cinema, the volume also highlights the Shakespearean elements in several nearly forgotten films, bringing them back to critical attention.…

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