Screening Gender in Shakespeare's Comedies - Film and Television Adaptations in the Twenty-First Century

Informationen zum Autor Magdalena Cieslak is assistant professor of English at the University of Lódz. Klappentext This book analyzes how twenty-first century film adaptations of Shakespeare's comedies interpret gender-related concepts of their source texts. Examining the negotiations between early modern and contemporary gender politics, Cie¿lak identifies the main strategies of accommodating early modern gender constructs for today’s audiences. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Doing It "Straight" Chapter 1-Michael Radford's The Merchant of Venice Chapter 2-Kenneth Branagh's As You Like It Chapter 3-Julie Taymor's The Tempest Chapter 4-Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing Part II: BBC's ShakespeaRe-Told-Retelling Shakespeare for Political Correctness Chapter 5-BBC's ShakespeaRe-Told Much Ado About Nothing, dir. Brian Percival Chapter 6-BBC's ShakespeaRe-Told The Taming of the Shrew, dir. David Richards Chapter 7- BBC's ShakespeaRe-Told A Midsummer Night's Dream, dir. Ed Fraiman Conclusion: Girl Power or Will Power? Epilogue: Bridget Jones's Baby

Product details

• Authors: Cie&, Magdalena Cie¿lak, Magdalena Cieslak, Cieslak Magdalena
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781498563741
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-6374-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Remakes, Reboots, and Adaptations; Remakes, Reboots, and Adaptati
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HUMOR / Topic / Celebrity & Popular Culture, Humour, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity