Joss Whedon As Shakespearean Moralist

Author : J. Douglas Rabb,J. Michael Richardson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476617862

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Joss Whedon as Shakespearean Moralist by J. Douglas Rabb,J. Michael Richardson Pdf

Drawing on the works of Shakespeare and American screenwriter Joss Whedon, this study in narrative ethics contends that Whedon is the Shakespeare of our time. The Bard wrote before the influence of the modern moral philosophers, while Whedon is writing in the postmodern period. It is argued that Whedon’s work is more in harmony with the early modern values of Shakespeare than with modern ethics, which trace their origin to 17th and 18th century moral philosophy. This study includes a detailed discussion of representative works of Shakespeare and Whedon, showing how they can and should be read as forms of narrative ethics.

Author : J. Douglas Rabb,J. Michael Richardson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780786474400

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Joss Whedon as Shakespearean Moralist by J. Douglas Rabb,J. Michael Richardson Pdf

Drawing on the works of Shakespeare and American screenwriter Joss Whedon, this study in narrative ethics contends that Whedon is the Shakespeare of our time. The Bard wrote before the influence of the modern moral philosophers, while Whedon is writing in the postmodern period. It is argued that Whedon's work is more in harmony with the early modern values of Shakespeare than with modern ethics, which trace their origin to 17th and 18th century moral philosophy. This study includes a detailed discussion of representative works of Shakespeare and Whedon, showing how they can and should be read as forms of narrative ethics.

Author : Don Macnaughtan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-21
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781476670591

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The Whedonverse Catalog by Don Macnaughtan Pdf

Director, producer and screenwriter Joss Whedon is a creative force in film, television, comic books and a host of other media. This book provides an authoritative survey of all of Whedon's work, ranging from his earliest scriptwriting on Roseanne, through his many movie and TV undertakings--Toy Story, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly/Serenity, Dr. Horrible, The Cabin in the Woods, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.--to his forays into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The book covers both the original texts of the Whedonverse and the many secondary works focusing on Whedon's projects, including about 2000 books, essays, articles, documentaries and dissertations.

Author : Johnathan H. Pope
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030337261

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Shakespeare’s Fans by Johnathan H. Pope Pdf

This book examines Shakespearean adaptations through the critical lens of fan studies and asks what it means to be a fan of Shakespeare in the context of contemporary media fandom. Although Shakespeare studies and fan studies have remained largely separate from one another for the past thirty years, this book establishes a sustained dialogue between the two fields. In the process, it reveals and seeks to overcome the problematic assumptions about the history of fan cultures, Shakespeare’s place in that history, and how fan works are defined. While fandom is normally perceived as a recent phenomenon focused primarily on science fiction and fantasy, this book traces fans’ practices back to the eighteenth century, particularly David Garrick’s Shakespeare Jubilee in 1769. Shakespeare’s Fans connects historical and scholarly debates over who owns Shakespeare and what constitutes an appropriate adaptation of his work to online fan fiction and commercially available fan works.

Author : James Rocha,Mona Rocha
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476673837

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Joss Whedon, Anarchist? by James Rocha,Mona Rocha Pdf

 Joss Whedon has created numerous TV series, movies, comics and one sing-along-blog, all of which focus on societal problems in the metaphorical guise of monsters-of-the-week and over-arching big-bads. The present work examines structural violence through interdimensional law firm Wolfram & Hart's legal representation of evil. We explore the limits of consent through the Rossum Corporation's coercion and manipulation. We rehearse the struggle to find meaningful freedom from the crew of Serenity. This book traces a theme of anarchist theory through the multiple strings of the Whedonverse--all of his works show how ordinary heroes can unite for the love of humanity to save the world from hierarchy and paternalism.

Author : Lewis Call
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476639956

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Sexualities in the Works of Joss Whedon by Lewis Call Pdf

Joss Whedon's works, across all media including television, film, musicals, and comic books, are known for their commitment to gender and sexual equality. They have always encouraged their audiences to love whomever, and however, they wish. This book is a history of the sexualities represented in the works of Joss Whedon and it covers all of Whedon's genres, including fantasy, horror, science fiction, westerns, superhero stories, and Shakespearean comedy. Unique for its consideration of the entire arc of Whedon's two-decade career, from the beginning of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's first season in 1997 through the conclusion of its twelfth (comic book) season in 2018, this book examines in detail both better-known queer sexualities of the LGBTQ+ spectrum, and lesser-known non-normative sexualities. The book includes chapters on Whedon's sexually dominant women and submissive men, sexual pluralism on Firefly, disabled sexualities in Whedon's superhero narratives, zoophilia in Buffy, queer and heteronormative sexualities in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, the subversion of the sexual tropes of slasher films in The Cabin in Woods, and dominance and submission in Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing.

Author : Andrew James Hartley,Peter Holland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350107755

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Shakespeare and Geek Culture by Andrew James Hartley,Peter Holland Pdf

From fantasy and sci-fi to graphic novels, from boy scouts to board games, from blockbuster films to the cult of theatre, Shakespeare is everywhere in popular culture. Where there is popular culture there are fans and nerds and geeks. The essays in this collection on Shakespeare and Geek Culture take an innovative approach to the study of Shakespeare's cultural presences, situating his works, his image and his brand to locate and explore the nature of that geekiness that, the authors argue, is a vital but unrecognized feature of the world of those who enjoy and are obsessed by Shakespeare, whether they are scholars, film fans, theatre-goers or members of legions of other groupings in which Shakespeare plays his part. Working at the intersections of a wide range of fields – including fan studies and film analysis, cultural studies and fantasy/sci-fi theory – the authors demonstrate how the particularities of the connection between Shakespeare and geek culture generate new insights into the plays, poems and their larger cultural legacy in the 21st century.

Author : Ariane M. Balizet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781351372039

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Shakespeare and Girls’ Studies by Ariane M. Balizet Pdf

A modern-day Taming of the Shrew that concludes at a high school prom. An agoraphobic Olivia from Twelfth Night sending video dispatches from her bedroom. A time-traveling teenager finding romance in the house of Capulet. Shakespeare and Girls’ Studies posits that Shakespeare in popular culture is increasingly becoming the domain of the adolescent girl, and engages the interdisciplinary field of Girls’ Studies to analyze adaptation and appropriation of Shakespeare’s plays in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Through chapters on film, television, young adult fiction, and web series aimed at girl readers and audiences, this volume explores the impact of girl cultures and concerns on Shakespeare’s afterlife in popular culture and the classroom. Shakespeare and Girls’ Studies argues that girls hold a central place in Shakespearean adaptation, and that studying Shakespeare through the lens of contemporary girlhoods can generate new approaches to Renaissance literature as well as popular culture aimed at girls and young people of marginalized genders. Drawing on contemporary cultural discourses ranging from Abstinence-Only Sex Education and Shakespeare in the US Common Core to rape culture and coming out, this book addresses the overlap between Shakespeare’s timeless girl heroines and modern popular cultures that embrace figures like Juliet and Ophelia to understand and validate the experiences of girls. Shakespeare and Girls’ Studies theorizes Shakespeare’s past and present cultural authority as part of an intersectional approach to adaptation in popular culture.

Author : Daniel Fischlin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781442669376

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OuterSpeares by Daniel Fischlin Pdf

For Shakespeare and Shakespearean adaptation, the global digital media environment is a “brave new world” of opportunity and revolution. In OuterSpeares: Shakespeare, Intermedia, and the Limits of Adaptation, noted scholars of Shakespeare and new media consider the ways in which various media affect how we understand Shakespeare and his works. Daniel Fischlin and his collaborators explore a wide selection of adaptations that occupy the space between and across traditional genres – what artist Dick Higgins calls “intermedia” – ranging from adaptations that use social networking, cloud computing, and mobile devices to the many handicrafts branded and sold in connection with the Bard. With essays on YouTube and iTunes, as well as radio, television, and film, OuterSpeares is the first book to examine the full spectrum of past and present adaptations, and one that offers a unique perspective on the transcultural and transdisciplinary aspects of Shakespeare in the contemporary world.

Author : Emily Dial-Driver,,Sally Emmons-Featherston,Jim Ford
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786451678

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The Truth of Buffy by Emily Dial-Driver,,Sally Emmons-Featherston,Jim Ford Pdf

Seemingly the most fantastical of television series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer proves on close examination to be firmly rooted in real-world concerns. In this collection of critical essays, 15 authors from several disciplines, including literature, the visual arts, theatre, philosophy, and political science, study ways in which Buffy illuminates viewers' real-life experiences. Topics include the series' complicated portrayals of the relationship between soul, morality, and identity; whether Buffy can truly be described as a feminist icon; stereotypes of Native Americans in the episode "Pangs"; the role of signs in the interaction between Buffy's aesthetics and audience; and the problem of power and underhanded politics in the Buffy universe.

Author : Elizabeth Griffith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Didactic drama, English
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034997515

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The Morality of Shakespeare's Drama by Elizabeth Griffith Pdf

Author : Neema Parvini
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474432894

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Shakespeare's Moral Compass by Neema Parvini Pdf

Examines the aesthetics, concepts and politics of chaotic and obscured moving images.

Author : Michael D. Bristol
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1472555171

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Shakespeare and Moral Agency by Michael D. Bristol Pdf

Shakespeare and Moral Agency presents a collection of new essays by literary scholars and philosophers considering character and action in Shakespeare's plays as heuristic models for the exploration of some salient problems in the field of moral inquiry. Together they offer a unified presentation of an emerging orientation in Shakespeare studies, drawing on recent work in ethics, philosophy of mind, and analytic aesthetics to construct a powerful framework for the critical analysis of Shakespeare's works. Contributors€suggest new possibilities for the interpretation of Shakespearean drama.

Author : Vivian Thomas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : English drama
ISBN : 0709943229

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The Moral Universe of Shakespeare's Problem Plays by Vivian Thomas Pdf

Author : Jennifer Ann Bates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1441674128

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Hegel and Shakespeare on Moral Imagination by Jennifer Ann Bates Pdf

Study of self-consciousness in Hegel and Shakespeare.