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Authorizing Shakespeare on Film and Television - Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Adaptation (Hardcover, New edition)
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Authorizing Shakespeare on Film and Television - Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Adaptation (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Studies in Shakespeare, 19
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Authorizing Shakespeare on Film and Television examines recent film
and television transformations of William Shakespeare's drama by
focusing on the ways in which modern directors acknowledge and
respond to the perceived authority of Shakespeare as author, text,
cultural icon, theatrical tradition, and academic institution. This
study explores two central questions. First, what efforts do
directors make to justify their adaptations and assert an
interpretive authority of their own? Second, how do those
self-authorizing gestures impact upon the construction of gender,
class, and ethnic identity within the filmed adaptations of
Shakespeare's plays? The chosen films and television series
considered take a wide range of approaches to the adaptative
process - some faithfully preserve the words of Shakespeare; others
jettison the Early Modern language in favor of contemporary idiom;
some recreate the geographic and historical specificity of the
original plays, and others transplant the plot to fresh settings.
The wealth of extra-textual material now available with film and
television distribution and the numerous website tie-ins and
interviews offer the critic a mine of material for accessing the
ways in which directors perceive the looming Shakespearean shadow
and justify their projects. Authorizing Shakespeare on Film and
Television places these directorial claims alongside the film and
television plotting and aesthetic to investigate how such
authorizing gestures shape the presentation of gender, class, and
ethnicity.
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