'Hamlet' and world cinema

'Hamlet' and world cinema

by Burnett, Mark Thornton

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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 tw…

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  • Full title :'Hamlet' and world cinema / Mark Thornton Burnett.

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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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2019.

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  • Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781108638470, 1108638473, 9781316471708, 1316471705
  • oclc:on1105928240
  • LC Classification:PR2807
  • Dewey Decimal:822.3/3

Table of Contents

Hamlet, cinema and the histories of Western Europe -- Thematising place : Hamlet, cinema and Africa -- Hamlet and the moment of Brazilian cinema -- Pairing the cinematic prince : Hamlet, China and Japan -- Hamlet and Indian cinemas : regional paradigms -- Gendering borders : Hamlet and the cinemas of Turkey and Iran -- Materialising Hamlet in the cinemas of Russia, Central and Eastern Europe.

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Adaptations cinématographiques -- Histo… Criticism, interpretation, etc DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh English drama (Tragedy) English drama (Tragedy) -- Film adaptat… Film adaptations Film adaptations -- History and critici… Hamlet (Shakespeare, William) Shakespeare, William Tragédie anglaise -- Adaptations cinéma…

Writers

Burnett, Mark Thornton

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