Uncanny Fidelity - Recognizing Shakespeare in Twenty-first-century Film and Television

How the study of Shakespeare's legacy, specifically in film and television, can radically challenge what we consider to be authentically Shakespearean

About the author

James Newlin is lecturer in the Department of English at Case Western Reserve University. He is coeditor, with James W. Stone, of the volume New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains. His research is primarily concerned with the reception of Shakespeare in intellectual history, as well as film and contemporary literature. His writing on these topics has appeared in the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Shakespeare Bulletin, SubStance, and in other journals and edited collections.

Summary

Demonstrates how the study of Shakespeare’s afterlife, specifically in film and television, can clarify both the historical context of his drama and its relevance for the current political moment.

Product details

• Authors: James Newlin
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9780817321765
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-2176-5
• Series: Strode Studies in Early Modern; Strode Studies in Early Modern Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies