Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siecle
Author | : Mark Thornton Burnett |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2016-01-22 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780230286795 |
ISBN-13 | : 0230286798 |
Rating | : 4/5 (798 Downloads) |
Download or read book Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siecle written by Mark Thornton Burnett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume read the Shakespeare films of the 1990s as key instruments with which western culture confronts the anxieties attendant upon the transition from one century to another. Such films as Hamlet, Love's Labour's Lost, Othello, Shakespeare in Love and William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet , the contributors maintain, engage with some of the most pressing concerns of the present, apocalyptic condition - familial crisis, social estrangement, urban blight, cultural hybridity, literary authority, the impact of technology and the end of history. The volume includes an exclusive interview with Kenneth Branagh.