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'Hamlet' and World Cinema
Contributor(s): Burnett, Mark Thornton (Author)

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 ISBN: 1107135508     ISBN-13: 9781107135505
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $102.60  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Drama | Shakespeare
Dewey: 822.33
LCCN: 2019005970
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 7.7" W x 8.7" L (1.30 lbs) 294 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product
Review Citations: Choice 01/01/2020
 
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Publisher Description:
'Hamlet' and World Cinema reveals a rich history of cinematic production extending across the globe. Making a case for Hamlet as the world's most frequently filmed text, and using specially commissioned interviews with cast, directors and screenwriters, it discusses films from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. The book argues that the play has been taken up by filmmakers world-wide to allegorise the energies, instabilities, traumas and expectations that have defined the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In so doing, it rejects the Anglophone focus which has dominated criticism up to now and explores instead the multiple constituencies that have claimed Shakespeare's most celebrated work as their own. 'Hamlet' and World Cinema uncovers a vital part of the adaptation story. This book facilitates a fresh understanding of Shakespeare's cinematic significance and newly highlights Hamlet's political and aesthetic instrumentality in a vast range of local and global contexts.

Contributor Bio(s): Burnett, Mark Thornton: - Mark Thornton Burnett is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen's University Belfast and Director of the Sir Kenneth Branagh Archive. He is the author of Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture (1997), Constructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture (2002), Filming Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace (2nd edition, 2012) and Shakespeare and World Cinema (Cambridge, 2012). His co-edited publications include Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siècle (2000), Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century (2006) and Filming and Performing Renaissance History (2011).
 
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