Reading Shakespeare in the Movies Non-Adaptations and Their Meaning /

• Main Author: Mallin, Eric S. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Reproducing Shakespeare
• Subjects: Literature, Modern.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.; Drama.; Motion pictures.; Motion pictures-United States.; Shakespeare.; Adaptation Studies.; American Cinema and TV.; Film Theory.

Reading Shakespeare in the Movies: Non-Adaptations and Their Meaning analyzes the unacknowledged, covert presence of Shakespearean themes, structures, characters, and symbolism in selected films. Writers and directors who forge an unconscious, unintentional connection to Shakespeare's work crea...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Shakespeare in the Movies: Meaning-Making in the Non-Adaptation
• 2. Out of Joint: Memento as Contemporary Hamlet
• 3. Titanic's Doomed Lovers as Shakespearean Avatars
• 4. Disturbing Dreams and Transcendence in Birdman and The Tempest
• 5. The Violence of Meat: Titus Andronicus, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and the Fate of the Animal
• 6. Epilogue: Three Billboards and Modulations of Shakespearean Revenge.