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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.
About the author
Sarah Hatchuel is Professor of English Literature and Film at the University of Le Havre and the President of the Société Française Shakespeare. She has written extensively on adaptations of Shakespeare's plays. She is the author of Shakespeare and the Cleopatra/Caesar Intertext: Sequel, Conflation, Remake (2011) and Shakespeare, from Stage to Screen (Cambridge, 2004). She also edited Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra in The New Kittredge Shakespeare collection (2008) and co-edited, with Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin, the Shakespeare on Screen series (from 2003–13.Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin is Professor in Shakespeare Studies at Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier. She is Co-General Editor (with Jean-Christophe Mayer) of Cahiers Élisabéthains and co-director (with Patricia Dorval) of the Shakespeare on Screen in Francophonia Database (shakscreen.org). She is the author of The Unruly Tongue in Early Modern England, Three Treatises (2012) and co-edited, with Sarah Hatchuel, the Shakespeare on Screen series (from 2003–13.
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.
