Screening early modern drama : beyond Shakespeare / / Pascale Aebischer [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Aebischer Pascale <1970->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 274 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 791.43/657
• Soggetto topico: Film adaptations - History and criticism; English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - Film adaptations; Motion pictures and literature; Motion pictures - Great Britain - History - 20th century
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: beyond Shakespeare: the contemporary Jacobean film -- Derek Jarman's queer contemporary Jacobean aesthetic: Caravaggio and Edward II -- The preposterous contemporary Jacobean film: Peter Greenaway's Cook, heritage Shakespeare and sexual exploitation in Mike Figgis's Hotel -- Third cinema, urban regeneration and heritage Shakespeare in Alex Cox's Revengers tragedy -- Early modern performance and digital media: remediation and the evolving archival canon -- Bend it like Nagra: mainstreaming the changeling in Sarah Harding's Compulsion -- Conclusion: early modern dramatists on twenty-first century screens.
• Sommario/riassunto: While film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays captured the popular imagination at the turn of the last century, independent filmmakers began to adapt the plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries. The roots of their films in European avant-garde cinema and the plays' politically subversive, sexually transgressive and violent subject matter challenge Shakespeare's cultural dominance and the conventions of mainstream cinema. In Screening Early Modern Drama, Pascale Aebischer shows how director Derek Jarman constructed an alternative, dissident, approach to filming literary heritage in his 'queer' Caravaggio and Edward II, providing models for subsequent filmmakers such as Mike Figgis, Peter Greenaway, Alex Cox and Sarah Harding. Aebischer explains how the advent of digital video has led to an explosion in low-budget screen versions of early modern drama. The only comprehensive analysis of early modern drama on screen to date, this groundbreaking study also includes an extensive annotated filmography listing forty-eight surviving adaptations.
• Titolo autorizzato: Screening early modern drama
• ISBN: 1-139-88919-2; 1-107-24145-6; 1-107-25101-X; 1-107-55944-8; 1-107-25018-8; 1-107-24852-3; 1-107-24769-1; 1-139-17619-6; 1-107-24935-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452470003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II