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Cowboy Hamlets and Zombie Romeos - Shakespeare in Genre Film

English · Hardback

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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

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