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Informationen zum Autor Melissa Croteau is an associate professor of literature and film studies at California Baptist University. Carolyn Jess-Cooke is a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Northumbria. She lives in Tyne and Wear, England. Klappentext This collection of essays examines the ways in which recent Shakespeare films portray anxieties about an impending global wasteland, technological alienation, spiritual destruction, and the effects of globalization. Films covered include Titus, William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, Almereyda's Hamlet, Revengers Tragedy, Twelfth Night, The Passion of the Christ, Radford's The Merchant of Venice, The Lion King, and Godard's King Lear, among others that directly adapt or reference Shakespeare. Essays chart the apocalyptic mise-en-scenes, disorienting imagery, and topsy-turvy plots of these films, using apocalypse as a theoretical and thematic lens. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays that examines the ways in which Shakespeare films portray anxieties of an impending global wasteland! technological alienation! spiritual destruction! and the effects of globalization. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Beginning at the EndsMELISSA CROTEAU 1. The "great doom's image": Apocalyptic Trajectories in Contemporary Shakespearean FilmmakingRAMONA WRAY 2. Apocalyptic Paternalism, Family Values, and the War of the Cinemas; or, How Shakespeare Became PosthumanCOURTNEY LEHMANN 3. Liberty's Taken, or How "captive women may be cleansed and used": Julie Taymor's Titus and 9/11KIM FEDDERSON and J. MICHAEL RICHARDSON 4. Post-Apocalyptic Spaces in Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + JulietRICHARD VELA 5. Celluloid Revelations: Millennial Culture and Dialogic"Pastiche" in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet (2000)MELISSA CROTEAU 6. The Revenger's Tragedy in 2002: Alex Cox's Punk ApocalypseGRETCHEN E. MINTON 7. The Plague in Filmed Versions of Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth NightCARL JAMES GRINDLEY 8. The Politics of Apocalypse: Interrogating Conversion in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ and Michael Radford's The Merchant of VeniceADRIAN STREETE 9. Disney's "War Efforts": The Lion King and Education for Death; or, Shakespeare Made Easy for Your Apocalyptic ConvenienceALFREDO MICHEL MODENESSI 10. Four Funerals and a Bedding: Freud and the Post-Apocalyptic Apocalypse of Jean-Luc Godard's King LearANTHONY R. GUNERATNE 11. "The Promised End" of Cinema: Portraits of Apocalypse in Post-Millennial Shakespearean FilmCAROLYN JESS-COOKE About the Contributors Index ...
