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- The first book-length study to give sustained Bakhtinian thought to Shakespeare-inflected films
- Analyzes a diverse set of films, ranging from Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood to Deepa Mehta’s Water
- Draws upon a number of fields ranging in focus from feminism to Marxism, psychoanalysis, and post-colonial theory
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book explores how Bakhtin’s ideas can illuminate the compelling but uneasy fusion of Shakespeare and cinema. With a wide variety of tones, languages, cultural orientations, and thematic concerns, film directors have updated, translated, transposed, fragmented, parodied, and geographically re-situated Shakespeare. Keith Harrison illustrates how Bakhtin’s interlinked writings in various fields can fruitfully be applied to an understanding of how the ongoing responsiveness of filmmakers to Shakespeare’s historically remote words can shape self-expressive acts of co-authoring in another medium. Through the use of such Bakhtinian concepts as the chronotope, heteroglossia, the carnivalesque, and polyphony, Harrison details how filmmakers—faithful to their specific cultures, genders, geographies, and historical moments—dialogically locate their particularity through Shakespeare’s presence.
Authors and Affiliations
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Departments of English and Creative Writing & Journalism, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, Canada
Keith Harrison
About the author
Keith Harrison is Academic Emeritus of English and Creative Writing & Journalism at Vancouver Island University, Canada. He has written two dozen scholarly essays on a variety of topics and has published five novels, including Eyemouth and Furry Creek. His literary papers are held in Special Collections at The Simon Fraser University Library, Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Shakespeare, Bakhtin, and Film
Book Subtitle: A Dialogic Lens
Authors: Keith Harrison
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59743-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-59742-3Published: 01 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86692-5Published: 03 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-59743-0Published: 16 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 263
Topics: Film Theory, Adaptation Studies, Close Reading, Genre, Global Cinema and TV