Shakespeare on Screen: Othello

An up-to-date survey of the key themes and debates surrounding screen adaptations and productions of Shakespeare's Othello.

List of contents

1. Introduction: ensnared in Othello on screen Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin; 2. Othello on screen: monsters, marvellous space and the power of the tale Victoria Bladen; 3. Rethinking blackness: the case of Olivier's Othello Peter Holland; 4. Othello retold: Orson Welles's Filming Othello Sébastien Lefait; 5. 'Institutionally racist': Sax's Othello and tethered presentism Peter J. Smith; 6. Intertextuality in Tim Blake Nelson's 'O' Ronan Ludot-Vlasak; 7. Indianizing Othello: Vishal Bhardwaj's Omkara Florence Cabaret; 8. Othello in Latin America: Otelo de Oliveira and Huapango Aimara da Cunha Resende; 9. Othello in Québec: André Forcier's Une histoire inventée Jennifer Drouin; 10. Anna's Sin and the circulation of Othello on film Douglas M. Lanier; 11. Mirroring Othello in genre films: A Double Life and Stage Beauty Kinga Földváry; 12. Othello in Spanish: dubbed and subtitled versions Jesús Tronch; 13. Othello on screen: select film-bibliography José Ramón Díaz Fernández; Index.

Summary

This volume offers up-to-date coverage of screen versions of Othello as well as original critical reviews of older, canonical films. Written by an international team of leading scholars, the essays explore productions from around the world. It will be a valuable resource for students, scholars and teachers of Shakespeare and film studies.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Hatchuel, Sarah (University of Le Havre) Vienne-Gu Hatchuel, Sarah Vienne-Guerrin Hatchuel
• Assisted by: Sarah Hatchuel (Editor), Sarah (University of Le Havre) Hatchuel (Editor), Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (Editor), Nathalie (Universite Paul Valery Vienne-Guerrin (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2015
• EAN: 9781107109735
• ISBN: 978-1-107-10973-5
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: Shakespeare on Screen; Shakespeare on Screen
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies