Authorizing Shakespeare on film and television [electronic resource] : gender, class, and ethnicity in adaptation / L. Monique Pittman.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Studies in Shakespeare ; v. 19.Publication details: New York : Peter Lang, 2011.Description: xi, 257 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 822.3/3 22
LOC classification:
  • PR3093 .P58 2011eb
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Contents:
Introduction : gestures that authorize -- Adaptations of the father: paternal authority goes imperial in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet and As you like it -- The liberal-humanist Shakespeare in Michael Radford's The merchant of Venice: Ethnic tolerance and the Portia problem -- Deep-fried American dream: class striving under the heat lamp in Scotland, Pa. -- Teen Shakespeare and the trouble with gender: 10 things I hate about you and She's the man -- The Bard and the beeb : televisual authority and Shakespeare retold -- Tracing Hamlet in slings and arrows: Fathers haunt the theater -- It's not tv, it's Shakespeare: literary-historical adaptation in HBO's Rome.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : gestures that authorize -- Adaptations of the father: paternal authority goes imperial in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet and As you like it -- The liberal-humanist Shakespeare in Michael Radford's The merchant of Venice: Ethnic tolerance and the Portia problem -- Deep-fried American dream: class striving under the heat lamp in Scotland, Pa. -- Teen Shakespeare and the trouble with gender: 10 things I hate about you and She's the man -- The Bard and the beeb : televisual authority and Shakespeare retold -- Tracing Hamlet in slings and arrows: Fathers haunt the theater -- It's not tv, it's Shakespeare: literary-historical adaptation in HBO's Rome.

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