Mallin Reading Shakespeare in the Movies

Non-Adaptations and Their Meaning
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-28898-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 254 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Reproducing Shakespeare

Reading Shakespeare in the Movies: Non-Adaptations and Their Meaning
analyzes the unacknowledged, covert presence of Shakespearean themes, structures, characters, and symbolism in selected films. Writers and directors who forge an unconscious, unintentional connection to Shakespeare’s work create
non-adaptations
, cinema that is unexpectedly similar to certain Shakespeare plays while remaining independent as art. These films can illuminate core semantic issues in those plays in ways that direct adaptations cannot. Eric S. Mallin explores how Shakespeare illuminates these movies,

analyzing the ways that
The Godfather
,
Memento
,
Titanic
,
Birdman,
and
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
take on new life in dialogue with the famous playwright. In addition to challenging our ideas about adaptation, Mallin works to inspire new awareness of the meanings of Shakespearean stories in the contemporary world.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mallin, Eric S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Shakespeare in the Movies: Meaning-Making in the Non-Adaptation.- 2. Out of Joint:
Memento
as Contemporary
Hamlet
.- 3.
Titanic
’s Doomed Lovers as Shakespearean Avatars.- 4. Disturbing Dreams and Transcendence in
Birdman
and
The Tempest
.- 5. The Violence of Meat:
Titus Andronicus, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
, and the Fate of the Animal.- 6. Epilogue:
Three Billboards
and Modulations of Shakespearean Revenge.

Über Autor(innen)

Eric S. Mallin
is Associate Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is the author of
Godless Shakespeare
(2007) and
Inscribing the Time: Shakespeare and the End of Elizabethan England
(1996). He has received several teaching awards including the President's Associates' and the Texs Exes' honors. He specializes in Shakespeare, cinema, and the nexus of sexuality and religion in the English Renaissance.