1st Edition

Shakespeare, Cinema, Counter-Culture Appropriation and Inversion

By Ailsa Ferguson Copyright 2016
212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

Addressing for the first time Shakespeare’s place in counter-cultural cinema, this book examines and theorizes counter-hegemonic, postmodern, and post-punk Shakespeare in late 20 th and early 21 st century film. Drawing on a diverse range of case studies, Grant Ferguson presents an interdisciplinary approach that offers new theories on the nature and application of Shakespearean appropriations... Read more

CONTENTS



List of Figures



Acknowledgements





Introduction



Chapter One: (Post)Punk Shakespeare, carnival and rebellion: The Filth and the Fury and Richard III



Chapter Two: Shakespeare and inversion: My Own Private Idaho and Henry IV parts 1 & 2



Chapter Three: The dance of death: Dogme#4: The King is Alive and King Lear



Chapter Four: Three Hamlets: Festivity and sedition



Prologue: "Hamlet the reformer"



i. Hamlet Liikemaailmassa (or Hamlet Goes Business, Finland, 1987, dir. Aki Kaurismaki)



ii. Festen (The Celebration, 1999, Denmark)



iii. Hamlet (2000, USA, dir. Michael Almereyda)



Bibliography



Filmography



Index

Biography

Ailsa Grant Ferguson is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of Brighton, UK.