Apocalyptic Shakespeare

Essays on Visions of Chaos and Revelation in Recent Film Adaptations

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Edited by Melissa Croteau and Carolyn Jess-Cooke

Type: Studies
Subject: Genre > Disaster films
Keywords: disaster films, Shakespeare
Publishing date: 2009
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Language: English

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Physical desc.

Paperback • 244 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-0-7864-3392-6

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This collection of essays examines the ways in which recent Shakespeare films portray anxieties about an impending global wasteland, technological alienation, spiritual destruction, and the effects of globalization. Films covered include Titus, William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, Almereyda’s Hamlet, Revengers Tragedy, Twelfth Night, The Passion of the Christ, Radford’s The Merchant of Venice, The Lion King, and Godard’s King Lear, among others that directly adapt or reference Shakespeare. Essays chart the apocalyptic mise-en-scènes, disorienting imagery, and topsy-turvy plots of these films, using apocalypse as a theoretical and thematic lens.

About the authors:
Melissa Croteau is an associate professor of literature and film studies at California Baptist University.
Carolyn Jess-Cooke is a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Northumbria. She lives in Tyne and Wear, England.

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