Spectral Shakespeares : media adaptations in the twenty-first century
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Spectral Shakespeares : media adaptations in the twenty-first century
（Reproducing Shakespeare : new studies in adaptation and appropriation）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, c2013
- pbk
Available at 2 libraries
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"Paperback edition published 2016. First published in hardcover 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-225) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Spectral Shakespeares is an illuminating exploration of recent, experimental adaptations of Shakespeare on film, TV, and the web. Drawing on adaptation studies and media theory as well as Jacques Derrida's work, this book argues that these adaptations foreground a cluster of self-reflexive "themes" - from incorporation to reiteration, from migration to addiction, from silence to survival - that contribute to the redefinition of adaptation, and Shakespearean adaptation in particular, as an unfinished and interminable process. The "Shakespeare" that emerges from these adaptations is a fragmentary, mediatized, and heterogeneous presence, a spectral Shakespeare that leaves a mark on our contemporary mediascape.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Shakespeare, Spectro-Textuality, Spectro-Mediality
1. The State of the Kitchen: Incorporation and "Animanomaly" in Scotland, PA and the BBC Shakespeare Retold Macbeth
2. Shakespearean Retreats: Spectrality, Survival, and Auto-Immunity in Kristian Levring's The King Is Alive
3. Reiterating Othello: Spectral Media and the Rhetoric of Silence in Alexander Abela's Souli
4. 'This Is My Home, Too': Migration, Spectrality, and Hospitality in Roberta Torre's Sud Side Stori
5. "Shakespeare in the Extreme": Ghosts and Remediation in Alexander Fodor's Hamlet
6. 'Restless Ecstasy': Addiction, Reiteration, and Mediality in Klaus Knoesel's Rave Macbeth
7. 'He speaks...Or Rather...He Tweets': The Specter of the "Original," Media, and 'Media-Crossed' Love in Such Tweet Sorrow
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