Recontextualizing Indian Shakespeare Cinema In The West

Author : Varsha Panjwani,Koel Chatterjee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350168671

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Recontextualizing Indian Shakespeare Cinema in the West by Varsha Panjwani,Koel Chatterjee Pdf

Featuring case studies, essays, and conversation pieces by scholars and practitioners, this volume explores how Indian cinematic adaptations outside the geopolitical and cultural boundaries of India are revitalizing the broader landscape of Shakespeare research, performance, and pedagogy. Chapters in this volume address practical and thematic concerns and opportunities that are specific to studying Indian cinematic Shakespeares in the West. For instance, how have intercultural encounters between Indian Shakespeare films and American students inspired new pedagogic methodologies? How has the presence and popularity of Indian Shakespeare films affected policy change at British cultural institutions? How can disagreement between eastern and western perspectives on the politics of a Shakespeare film become the site for productive cross-cultural dialogue? This is the first book to explore such complex interactions between Indian Shakespeare films and Western audiences to contribute to the assessment of the new networks that have emerged as a result of Global Shakespeare studies and practices. The volume argues that by tracking critical currents from India towards the West new insights are afforded on the wider field of Shakespeare Studies - including feminist Shakespeares, translation in Shakespeare, or the study of music in Shakespeare - and are shaping debates on the ownership and meaning of Shakespeare itself. Contributing to the current studies in Global Shakespeare, this book marks a discursive shift in the way Shakespeare on Indian screen is predominantly theorised and offers an alternative methodology for examining non-Anglophone cinematic Shakespeares as a whole.

Author : Poonam Trivedi,Paromita Chakravarti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317367000

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Shakespeare and Indian Cinemas by Poonam Trivedi,Paromita Chakravarti Pdf

This book is the first to explore the rich archive of Shakespeare in Indian cinemas, including less familiar, Indian language cinemas to contribute to the assessment of the expanding repertoire of Shakespeare films worldwide. Essays cover mainstream and regional Indian cinemas such as the better known Tamil and Kannada, as well as the less familiar regions of the North Eastern states. The volume visits diverse filmic genres, starting from the earliest silent cinema, to diasporic films made for global audiences, television films, independent films, and documentaries, thus expanding the very notion of ‘Indian cinema’ while also looking at the different modalities of deploying Shakespeare specific to these genres. Shakespeareans and film scholars provide an alternative history of the development of Indian cinemas through its negotiations with Shakespeare focusing on the inter-textualities between Shakespearean theatre, regional cinema, performative traditions, and literary histories in India. The purpose is not to catalog examples of Shakespearean influence but to analyze the interplay of the aesthetic, historical, socio-political, and theoretical contexts in which Indian language films have turned to Shakespeare and to what purpose. The discussion extends from the content of the plays to the modes of their cinematic and intermedial translations. It thus tracks the intra–Indian flows and cross-currents between the various film industries, and intervenes in the politics of multiculturalism and inter/intraculturalism built up around Shakespearean appropriations. Contributing to current studies in global Shakespeare, this book marks a discursive shift in the way Shakespeare on screen is predominantly theorized, as well as how Indian cinema, particularly ‘Shakespeare in Indian cinema’ is understood.

Author : Nely Keinänen,Per Sivefors
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350251274

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Reconstructing Shakespeare in the Nordic Countries by Nely Keinänen,Per Sivefors Pdf

Examining the changing reception of Shakespeare in the Nordic countries between 1870 and 1940, this follow-up volume to Disseminating Shakespeare in the Nordic Countries focuses on the broad movements of national revivalism that took place around the turn of the century as Finland and Norway, and later Iceland, were gaining their independence. The first part of the book demonstrates how translations and productions of Shakespeare were key in such movements, as Shakespeare was appropriated for national and political purposes. The second part explores how the role of Shakespeare in the Nordic countries was partly transformed in the 1920s and 1930s as a new social system emerged, and then as the rise of fascism meant that European politics cast a long shadow on the Nordic countries and substantially affected the reception of Shakespeare. Contributors trace the impact of early translations of Shakespeare's works into Icelandic, the role of women in the early transmission of Shakespeare in Finland and the first Shakespeare production at the Finnish Theatre, and the productions of Shakespeare's plays at the Norwegian National Theatre between 1899 and the outbreak of the Great War. In Part Two, they examine the political overtones of the 1916 Shakespeare celebrations in Hamlet's 'hometown' of Elsinore, Henrik Rytter's translations of 23 Shakespeare plays into Norwegian to assess their role in his poetics and in Scandinavian literature, the importance of the 1937 production of Hamlet in Kronborg Castle starring Laurence Olivier, and the role of Shakespeare in general and Hamlet in particular in Swedish Nobel laureate Eyvind Johnson's early work where it became a symbol of post-war passivity and rootlessness.

Author : Thea Buckley,Mark Thornton Burnett,Sangeeta Datta,Rosa García-Periago
Publisher : Arden Shakespeare
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350234369

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Women and Indian Shakespeares by Thea Buckley,Mark Thornton Burnett,Sangeeta Datta,Rosa García-Periago Pdf

Women and Indian Shakespeares explores the multiple ways in which women are, and have been, engaged with Shakespeare in India. Women's engagements encompass the full range of media, from translation to cinematic adaptation and from early colonial performance to contemporary theatrical experiment. Simultaneously, Women and Indian Shakespeares makes visible the ways in which women are figured in various representational registers as resistant agents, martial seductresses, redemptive daughters, victims of caste discrimination, conflicted spaces and global citizens. In so doing, the collection reorients existing lines of investigation, extends the disciplinary field, brings into visibility still occluded subjects and opens up radical readings. More broadly, the collection identifies how, in Indian Shakespeares on page, stage and screen, women increasingly possess the ability to shape alternative futures across patriarchal and societal barriers of race, caste, religion and class. In repeated iterations, the collection turns our attention to localized modes of adaptation that enable opportunities for women while celebrating Shakespeare's gendered interactions in India's rapidly changing, and increasingly globalized, cultural, economic and political environment. In the contributions, we see a transformed Shakespeare, a playwright who appears differently when seen through the gendered eyes of a new Indian, diasporic and global generation of critics, historians, archivists, practitioners and directors. Radically imagining Indian Shakespeares with women at the centre, Women and Indian Shakespeares interweaves history, regional geography/regionality, language and the present day to establish a record of women as creators and adapters of Shakespeare in Indian contexts.

Author : Richard Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 8187614749

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Comedies of Errors by Richard Allen Pdf

Author : Janet Clare,Dominique Goy-Blanquet
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350103290

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Migrating Shakespeare by Janet Clare,Dominique Goy-Blanquet Pdf

Migrating Shakespeare offers the first study of the earliest waves of Shakespeare's migration into Europe. Charting the spread of the reception and production of his plays across the continent, it examines how Shakespeare contributed to national cultures and – in some cases – nation building. The chapters explore the routes and cultural networks through which Shakespeare entered European consciousness, from first translations to stage adaptations and critical response. The role of strolling players and actors, translators and printers, poets and dramatists, is chronicled alongside the larger political and cultural movements shaping nations. Each individual case discloses the national, literary and theatrical issues Shakespeare encountered, revealing not only how cultures have accommodated and adapted Shakespeare on their own terms but their interpretative contribution to the texts. Taken collectively the volume addresses key questions about Shakespeare's naturalization or reluctant accommodation within other cultures, inaugurating his present global reach.

Author : Anne Sophie Refskou,Marcel Alvaro de Amorim,Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350035737

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Eating Shakespeare by Anne Sophie Refskou,Marcel Alvaro de Amorim,Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho Pdf

Eating Shakespeare provides a constructive critical analysis of the issue of Shakespeare and globalization and revisits understandings of interculturalism, otherness, hybridity and cultural (in)authenticity. Featuring scholarly essays as well as interviews and conversation pieces with creatives – including Geraldo Carneiro, Fernando Yamamoto, Diana Henderson, Mark Thornton Burnett, Samir Bhamra, Tajpal Rathore, Samran Rathore and Paul Heritage – it offers a timely and fruitful discourse between global Shakespearean theory and practice. The volume uniquely establishes and implements a conceptual model inspired by non-European thought, thereby confronting a central concern in the field of Global Shakespeare: the issue of Europe operating as a geographical and cultural 'centre' that still dominates the study of Shakespearean translations and adaptations from a 'periphery' of world-wide localities. With its origins in 20th-century Brazilian modernism, the concept of 'Cultural Anthropophagy' is advanced by the authors as an original methodology within the field currently understood as 'Global Shakespeare'. Through a broad range of examples drawn from theatre, film and education, and from both within Brazil and beyond, the volume offers illuminating perspectives on what Global Shakespeare may mean today.

Author : L. E. Semler
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408185025

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Teaching Shakespeare and Marlowe by L. E. Semler Pdf

This book explores how to achieve innovative approaches to teaching and learning Shakespeare and Marlowe within formal learning systems such as school and university.

Author : Mervyn Cooke,Fiona Ford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107094512

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The Cambridge Companion to Film Music by Mervyn Cooke,Fiona Ford Pdf

A stimulating and unusually wide-ranging collection of essays overviewing ways in which music functions in film soundtracks.

Author : Unhae Park Langis
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441187451

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Passion, Prudence, and Virtue in Shakespearean Drama by Unhae Park Langis Pdf

An analysis of passion, prudence and virtue in Shakespearean drama from the perspective of ethical criticism.

Author : Gordon McMullan,Kelly Stage
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350174399

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The Changeling: The State of Play by Gordon McMullan,Kelly Stage Pdf

This collection of original essays on Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's unsettling revenge tragedy The Changeling represents key new directions in criticism and research. The 13 chapters fall into six groups focusing on questions of space, theology, collaboration, disability both mental and physical, and performance both early modern and contemporary. The Changeling's critical and theatrical history, and a selected bibliography for the volume helps readers easily find the most frequently cited materials in the volume as a whole, while individual essays detail the full expanse of critical sources to pursue for further analysis. With contributors ranging from highly regarded critics to emerging scholars drawn from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France and Switzerland, the collection equips readers to engage with a variety of critical approaches to the play, moving a long way beyond the last century's tendency to treat Middleton as 'the early modern Ibsen', to ignore Rowley, and to focus almost wholly on a single aspect of the play's plot. Key themes and topics include: · Performance · Space and affect · Authorial collaboration · Gender and representation · Violence · Disability

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 1382 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408198780

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Arden Shakespeare Complete Works by William Shakespeare Pdf

This revised edition of the Arden Shakespeare Complete Works includes the full text of Double Falsehood, which was published in the Arden Third series to critical acclaim in 2010. The play is an eighteenth century rewrite of Shakespeare's "lost" play Cardenio and as such is a fascinating testament to the original. A short introduction outlines its complex textual history and the arguments for including it within the Shakespeare canon. The Complete Works contains the texts of all Shakespeare's plays, poems and sonnets, edited by leading Shakespeare scholars for the renowned Arden series. A general introduction gives the reader an overall view of how and why Shakespeare has become such an influential cultural icon, and how perceptions of his work have changed in the intervening four centuries. The introduction summarises the known facts about the dramatist's life, his reading and use of sources, and the nature of theatrical performance during his lifetime. Brief introductions to each play, written specially for this volume by the Arden General Editors, discuss the date and contemporary context of the play, its position within Shakespeare's oeuvre, and its subsequent performance history. An extensive glossary explains vocabulary which may be unfamiliar to modern readers.

Author : Yasmin Arshad
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350248878

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Imagining Cleopatra by Yasmin Arshad Pdf

Shakespeare's characterization of Cleopatra may dominate the collective consciousness, but he was only one of several 16th-century writers fascinated by the enigmatic queen of Egypt. Early modern conceptions of Cleopatra offer a rich, complex, and variable set of models for understanding the period's responses to race, female sovereignty, and classical antiquity. This interdisciplinary study investigates images of Cleopatra in the early modern period and examines how her story was mediated and used – from drawing lessons from history to being a symbol of female heroism. It draws on early historiographical works, political and philosophical treatises, coterie dramatic productions, and gender, race and performance studies, as well as evidence from material culture, to consider what was known and thought about Cleopatra in the period This book provides a new literary and cultural history of one of the world's most contested and politically-charged iconic female figures. It combines a close reading of literary and dramatic works with historical and political contexts, paying particular attention to the three major early modern Cleopatra plays: Mary Sidney's translation of Robert Garnier's Marc Antoine, Samuel Daniel's The Tragedie of Cleopatra, and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. By examining these conflicting historical and fictional identities, Yasmin Arshad offers a diverse and ground-breaking study of Cleopatra's 'infinite variety'.

Author : Trinh T. Minh-ha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135209940

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Framer Framed by Trinh T. Minh-ha Pdf

Framer Framed brings together for the first time the scripts and detailed visuals of three of Trinh Minh-ha's provocative films: Reassemblage, Naked Spaces--Living is Round, and Surname Viet Given Name Nam.

Author : Pascal Nicklas,Oliver Lindner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110272239

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Adaptation and Cultural Appropriation by Pascal Nicklas,Oliver Lindner Pdf

“Hamlet” by Olivier, Kaurismäki or Shepard and “Pride and Prejudice” in its many adaptations show the virulence of these texts and the importance of aesthetic recycling for the formation of cultural identity and diversity. Adaptation has always been a standard literary and cultural strategy, and can be regarded as the dominant means of production in the cultural industries today. Focusing on a variety of aspects such as artistic strategies and genre, but also marketing and cultural politics, this volume takes a critical look at ways of adapting and appropriating cultural texts across epochs and cultures in literature, film and the arts.