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Apocalyptic Shakespeare, essays on visions of chaos and revelation in recent film adaptations, edited by Melissa Croteau and Carolyn Jess-Cooke

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Apocalyptic Shakespeare, essays on visions of chaos and revelation in recent film adaptations, edited by Melissa Croteau and Carolyn Jess-Cooke
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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illustrations
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non fiction
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Apocalyptic Shakespeare
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electronic resource
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795566437
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edited by Melissa Croteau and Carolyn Jess-Cooke
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essays on visions of chaos and revelation in recent film adaptations
Summary
"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. Essays chart the apocalyptic mise-en-scènes, disorienting imagery, and topsy-turvy plots of these films, using apocalypse as a theoretical and thematic lens"--Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
Introduction : beginning at the ends / Melissa Croteau -- The "great doom's image" : apocalyptic trajectories in contemporary Shakespearean filmmaking / Ramona Wray -- Apocalyptic paternalism, family values, and the war of the cinemas; or, how Shakespeare became posthuman / Courtney Lehmann -- Liberty's taken, or how "captive women may be cleansed and used" : Julie Taymor's Titus and 9/11 / Kim Fedderson and J. Michael Richardson -- Post-apocalyptic spaces in Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet / Richard Vela -- Celluloid revelations : millennial culture and dialogic "pastiche" in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet (2000) / Melissa Coteau -- The revenger's tragedy in 2002 : Alex Cox's punk apocalypse / Gretchen E. Minton -- The plague in filmed versions of Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth night / Carl James Grindley -- The politics of apocalypse : interrogating conversion in Mel Gibson's The passion of the Christ and Michael Radford's The merchant of Venice / Adrian Streete -- Disney's "war efforts" : The lion king and Education for death; or Shakespeare made easy for your apocalyptic convenience / Alfredo Michel Modenessi -- Four funerals and a bedding : Freud and the post-apocalyptic apocalypse of Jean-Luc Godard's King Lear / Anthony R. Guneratne -- "The promised end" of cinema : portraits of apocalypse in post-millennial Shakespearean film / Carorly Jess-Cooke
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