Shakespeare and YouTube : new media forms of the bard
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Shakespeare and YouTube : new media forms of the bard
（The Arden Shakespeare）
Bloomsbury, 2014
- : HB
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Bibliography: p. [293]-313
Includes index
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Description
The video-sharing platform YouTube signals exciting opportunities and challenges for Shakespeare studies. As patron, distributor and archive, YouTube occasions new forms of user-generated Shakespeares, yet a reduced Bard too, subject to the distractions of the contemporary networked mediascape.
This book identifies the genres of YouTube Shakespeare, interpreting them through theories of remediation and media convergence and as indices of Shakespeare's shifting cultural meanings. Exploring the intersection of YouTube's participatory culture - its invitation to 'Broadcast Yourself' - with its corporate logic, the book argues that YouTube Shakespeare is a site of productive tension between new forms of self-expression and the homogenizing effects of mass culture.
Stephen O'Neill unfolds the range of YouTube's Bardic productions to elaborate on their potential as teaching and learning resources. The book importantly argues for a critical media literacy, one that attends to identity constructions and to the politics of race and gender as they emerge through Shakespeare's new media forms.
Shakespeare and YouTube will be of interest to students and scholars of Shakespearean drama, poetry and adaptations, as well as to new media studies.
Table of Contents
Note on Procedures
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction:
Interpreting YouTube Shakespeare
Chapter One:
Searchable Shakespeares: Attention, Genres and Value on YouTube
Chapter Two
Broadcast Your Hamlet: Convergence Culture, Shakespeare and Online Self-Expression
Chapter Three
Race in YouTube Shakespeare: Ways of Seeing
Chapter Four
Medium Play, Queer Erasures:
Shakespeare's Sonnets on YouTube
Chapter Five
The Teaching and Learning Tube:
Challenges and Affordances for Shakespeare Studies
Bibliography
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"