Cowboy Hamlets and Zombie Romeos - Shakespeare in Genre Film

The book focuses on the interpretation of Shakespeare film adaptations in commercial film genres, from the classical Hollywood era to contemporary blockbuster cinema. Its genre-based analyses revisit old favourites and rediscover long-forgotten treasures of film history, taking adaptation studies in a new direction.

List of contents

Introduction: Shakespeare meets genre film
Part I: Classical Hollywood cinema
1 Will in the Wild West: western adaptations of Shakespeare
2 Shakespeare the tear-jerker: from woman's film to global melodrama
3 Dark-minded Othellos, mobster Macbeths: film noir, gangster, gangster noir
Part II: Contemporary blockbusters
4 Back to school, Will: Shakespeare the teen idol
5 Shakespeare the undead: a renaissance of vampires and zombies
6 Will, Bill and the Earl: versions of the author in contemporary biopics
Conclusion
Index

About the author

Kinga Földváry is Senior Lecturer at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest, Hungary

Product details

• Authors: Tineke Broer, Choon Key Chekar, Kinga Foeldvary, Kinga Foldvary, Kinga Földváry
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781526142092
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4209-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Manchester University Press
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Film: styles & genres, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Film Theory & Criticism, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Film: styles and genres, Film history, theory or criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean