Shakespeare and modern popular culture
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Shakespeare and modern popular culture
(Oxford Shakespeare topics / general editors, Peter Holland and Stanley Wells)
Oxford University Press, 2002
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-182) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780198187035
Description
Shakespeare and Superman? Shakespeare and "The Twilight Zone"? Shakespeare and romance novels? What is Shakespeare doing in modern popular culture? Douglas Lanier examines how our conceptions of Shakespeare's works and his cultural status have been profoundly shapes by Shakespeare's diffuse presence in such popular forms as films, comic books, TV shows, mass-market fiction, children's books, kitsch, and advertising. "Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture" offers an overview of issues raised in Shakespeare's appropriation in 20th-century popular culture, and argues that Shakespeare's appearances in these media can be seen as a form of cultural theorizing, a means by which popular culture thinks through its relationship to high culture. Through a series of case studies, the book examines how popular culture actively constructs, contests, uses, and perpetuates Shakespeare's cultural authority.
Table of Contents
- 1. Where No Bard Has Gone Before
- 2. Unpopularizing Shakespeare: A Short History
- 3. According to Shakespeare: Allusion and Citation
- 4. Recasting the Plays: Homage, Adaptation, Parody
- 5. A Will to Reinvent: Biography and Mythology
- 6. Shakespeare Tourism and Festivals
- Further Reading
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: pbk ISBN 9780198187066
Description
Shakespeare and Superman? Shakespeare and The Twilight Zone? Shakespeare and romance novels? What is Shakespeare doing in modern popular culture? In the first book-length study to consider the modern 'Shakespop' phenomenon broadly, Douglas Lanier examines how our conceptions of Shakespeare's works and his cultural status have been profoundly shapes by Shakespeare's diffuse presence in such popular forms as films, comic books, TV shows, mass-market fiction,
children's books, kitsch, and advertising. Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture offers an overview of issues raised in Shakespeare's appropriation in twentieth-century popular culture, amd argues that Shakespeare's appearances in these media can be seen as a form of cultural theorizing, a means by which
popular culture thinks through its relationship to high culture. Through a series of case studies, the book examines how popular culture actively constructs, contests, uses, and perpetuates Shakespeare's cultural authority.
Table of Contents
- 1. Where No Bard Has Gone Before
- 2. Unpopularizing Shakespeare: A Short History
- 3. According to Shakespeare: Allusion and Citation
- 4. Recasting the Plays: Homage, Adaptation, Parody
- 5. A Will to Reinvent: Biography and Mythology
- 6. Shakespeare Tourism and Festivals
- Further Reading
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