Beyond Shakespeare : Film Studies, Performance Studies, and Netflix

• Autore: Tuan Iris H
• Pubblicazione: Singapore : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 pages)
• Disciplina: 820; 791
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- 1 Preface: Introduction -- Part I Shakespeare -- 2 Metaphors of Plagues in Shakespeare's Plays -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature Review -- 3 Shakespeare in Plague Quarantine -- 4 Shakespeare Wrote Poetry and Plays on Pandemics -- 5 Plague and Pandemics Work as Metaphors -- 6 Macbeth and King Lear Were Written During the Plague -- 7 Expressions of the Plagues in Shakespeare's Plays -- 8 Plagues as Comic Expression of Lovesickness -- 9 Mundane Language -- 10 Deaths in The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus -- 11 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Food/Drink Consumption, Emotions, and Obsessions in Shakespeare's Plays and Art -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Food/Drink Consumption in Shakespeare's Plays -- 3 Theatergoers Ate While Watching the Bard's Plays -- 3.1 Food Metaphor -- 3.2 Obsessions with Food/Drink as Sexual Innuendo -- 3.3 Feast and Functions of Food/Drink -- 3.4 Food/Drink as Violence and Death -- 3.5 Death, Murder, Rape, (Sexual) Violence, and Revenge -- 3.6 Tricks and Romance -- 3.7 Hallucination and Reconciliation -- 4 Food and Drink in Art -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Women and the "Feminine" by Quoting Shakespeare's Sonnets and Image Change in Screen -- 1 Shakespeare's Sonnets and Feminine Images in the Six Films -- 2 Theoretical Approach and Literature Review -- 3 Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 in the Two Films -- 3.1 BBC Film ShakespeaRe-told Much Ado About Nothing (2005) -- 3.2 The Reversal by Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 -- 3.3 Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 in Director Ang Lee's Film Sense and Sensibility -- 4 Women's Images Change in the Four Films -- 4.1 Elizabeth Taylor in the Film The Taming of the Shrew (1967) -- 4.2 Kat's Sportive Image in 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) -- 4.3 Black Skin in Deliver Us from Eva (2003). ; 4.4 BBC ShakespeaRe-told The Taming of the Shrew (2005) -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- 5 Post-modern Bizarre and Post-human Zombie: Warm Bodies and Titus -- 1 Postmodern Zombie Culture -- 2 Zombies in Shakespearean Film Warm Bodies -- 3 Posthuman Theory in Warm Bodies and Titus -- 3.1 Postmodern Bizarre and Inhuman War World in Titus -- 3.2 Postmodern Collage in Titus -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- 6 Travelling Images and Visual Culture in Shakespeare's Plays: Through and Beyond Repetition -- 1 Early Modern Performance and Traveling Images -- 2 Touring Performances During the Plague in the Sixteenth Century -- 3 Images of Traveling Players in Paintings -- 3.1 Traveling Troupe in Shakespeare's Hamlet -- 3.2 Touring Routes at Shakespeare's Time -- 4 Zoom Digital Performance A Wilderness of Monkeys -- 4.1 Images and Repeatability -- 4.2 Digital Surveillance in Global Cities -- 4.3 Benjamin's Concept of "Aura" -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part II Asian Performances and Asian American Theatre -- 7 Theatre Ecology, Nature, and Politics in Shakespeare's Plays and Hold On, Love! -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Ecocritical Approach to Shakespeare's Plays -- 1.2 Hakka Shakespeare-Xiqu Performance Hold on, Love! -- 2 Ecocriticism and Shakespeare -- 2.1 Adaptation and Metamorphosis -- 3 Intertextuality and Meta-Theater -- 3.1 Synopsis of the Script Hold on, Love! -- 3.2 Ecocriticism and Theater Ecology, Nature, and Politics -- 4 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 8 History Intertwined with Memory: In-between Stan Lai's Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land and River/Cloud -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Motivation -- 1.2 Stan Lai's Bio., Theme, and Argument -- 2 Taiwan Modern Experimental Theater History and Literature Theory -- 2.1 Realism -- 2.2 Meta-Theatre -- 2.3 Postdramatic Theatre -- 3 The Six Plays. ; 3.1 Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land (1991, Film 1992, 1999, 2006, 2016, 2022) -- 3.2 Journey to the West (1987) -- 3.3 Turn Back to the Other Shore (1989) -- 3.4 We Won't Pay, We Won't Pay (1998, 2022) -- 3.5 A Dream like a Dream (2005, 2022) -- 3.6 River/Cloud (2021) -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- 9 Race and Identity in David Henry Hwang's Plays and Musicals -- 1 Hate Crime Against Asians and Asian Americans Has Been Aggravated by COVID-19 -- 2 Racial Hatred Is Like an Ideological Disease Aggravated by COVID-19 -- 3 Race, Identity, and Politics -- 4 Intertwining Reality and Fiction -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Part III Netflix TV Dramas -- 10 Immaterial Representations in Altered Carbon: Sex, Body, and Memories -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Definition of Immaterial and Argument -- 1.2 Story of Altered Carbon -- 2 Approaches, Theories, Literature Review -- 3 Case Analysis: Immaterial Representations in Altered Carbon - Synopsis of the Novel, Netflix Drama Episodes -- 4 Immaterial Representation, Body Matters -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- 11 (In)Hospitality and Visual Culture in Downton Abbey -- 1 Introduction, Topic, Theme, Plot, Argument -- 2 Theory -- 3 Literature Review -- 4 Downton Abbey Depicted Real Historical Events -- 5 Decorum, Feminism, and Class -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- 12 Conclusion -- 1 Part II: Beyond Shakespeare, the Second Part of This Monograph Explores Asian Performances and Asian American Theatre -- 2 Part III: Netflix TV Dramas -- 3 Future Work -- Reference -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Beyond Shakespeare
• ISBN: 981-19-9402-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910736011503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II