Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares : queer theory and American kiddie culture
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Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares : queer theory and American kiddie culture
Macmillan, 1998
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Unspeakable Shakespeares
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-299) and index
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This is a look at the wide range of adaptations, spin offs, and citations of Shakespeare's plays in 1990s popular culture. The Bard has permeated contemporary film, television, video, and electronic media such as Internet Websites and CD ROMs in direct translation, interpretation, and as a cultural icon. While we may be familiar with Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh's film adaptations of the plays, what does it say about our culture when Shakespearean references turn up in television episodes of "The Brady Bunch" and "Gilligan's Island", films like "In and Out" and "My Own Private Idaho", and hardcore porn adaptations of "Hamlet" and "Romeo and Juliet"? Instead of lamenting this unusual dissemination of Shakespeare from a position of literary authority, Burt reads the reception of these often quite bad replays in relation to the contemporary youth culture and the "queering" of Shakespeare.
Documenting an array of Shakespearean citations that are so far from their originals that they no longer count as interpretation of the plays, Burt considers what Shakespeare enables American popular culture to do that it couldn't otherwise do without him and scrutinizes academic fantasies about fandom and stardom.
Table of Contents
Preface: My Own Private ShaXXXspeares Introduction: Dumb and Dumber Shakespeares: Academic Fantasy, the Electronic Archive, Loser Criticism, and Other Diminished Critical Capacities The Love That Dare Not Speak Shakespeare's Name: New Shakesqueer Cinema Deep Inside William Shakespeare: Pornographic Film and Video 'Classics' and the Castrated Gaze Terminating Shakespeare with Extreme Prejudice: Post-Colonial Cannibalism, Serial Quotation, and the Cinematic Spectacle of 1990s American Cultural Imperialism When Our Lips Synch Together: The Transvestite Voice, the Virtuoso, Speed and Pumped Up Volume in Some Over-heard Shakespeares My So-Called Shakespeare: Mourning the Canon in the Age of Post-Patriarchal Multiculturalism, or the Shakespeare Pedagogue as Loser Notes Bibliography
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