Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire - Adaptation and Other Futures of Shakespeare''s Language

Zusatztext "Shakespeare! Cinema and Desire is sophisticated! thought-provoking! and intellectually stimulating. Simon Ryle's relation of the Shakespearean text to later films is outstanding; he provides many compelling! unique readings of Shakespeare's language in specific adaptations and in the history of cinema itself. The book is an important addition to existing Shakespeare and film criticism that will appeal to Shakespearean scholars! teachers! and students." Lisa Starks-Estes! University of South Florida! USA Informationen zum Autor Simon Ryle is Assistant Professor in early modern literature, film, and critical theory at the University of Split, Croatia. Klappentext Shakespeare! Cinema and Desire explores the desires and the futures of Shakespeare's language and cinematographic adaptations of Shakespeare. Tracing ways that film offers us a rich new understanding of Shakespeare! it highlights issues such as media technology! mourning! loss! the voice! narrative territories and flows! sexuality and gender. Zusammenfassung Shakespeare! Cinema and Desire explores the desires and the futures of Shakespeare's language and cinematographic adaptations of Shakespeare. Tracing ways that film offers us a rich new understanding of Shakespeare! it highlights issues such as media technology! mourning! loss! the voice! narrative territories and flows! sexuality and gender. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction: Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire 1. Something from Nothing: King Lear and Film Space 2. Body Space: The Sublime Cleopatra 3. Ghost Time: Unfolding Hamlet 4. Re-nascences: The Tempest and New Media Epilogue Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: S Ryle, S. Ryle, Simon Ryle
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349461547
• ISBN: 978-1-349-46154-7
• No. of pages: 265
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, Hamlet;King Lear;Narrative;space;William Shakespeare