Filming Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace

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This exciting new title investigates the explosion of Shakespeare films during the 1990s and beyond. Linking fluctuating 'Shakespeares' with the growth of a global marketplace, the dissolution of national borders and technological advances, this book produces a fresh awareness of our contemporary cultural moment.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface (p. viii)
• List of Figures (p. xiv)
• Acknowledgements (p. xvi)
• Introduction (p. 1)
• 1 Screening the Stage (p. 7)
• 2 Sequelizing Shakespeare (p. 28)
• 3 The Local and the Global (p. 47)
• 4 Racial Identities, Global Economies (p. 66)
• 5 Remembrance, Holocaust, Globalization (p. 87)
• 6 Spirituality/Meaning/Shakespeare (p. 107)
• 7 Post-Millennial Parody (p. 129)
• Epilogue (p. 158)
• Notes (p. 167)
• Bibliography (p. 193)
• Index (p. 213)

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CHOICE Review

Burnett (Queen's Univ., Belfast) begins with an obligatory discussion of globalization, which some believe has turned Hollywood into "Hollyworld" (wordplay being the coinage of the realm for cultural studies). Imagining conversations between Shakespeare films, the author "listens" to recent Othellos and concludes that race is somehow "erased, even as it is prioritized." Likewise, The Merchant of Venice has been "configured by the Holocaust." Toward the end of the book--and none too soon, since he has led readers through swamps of cultural-studies jargon--Burnett lightens up a bit to discuss postmillennial "parodic versions" of Shakespeare adapted to film. Though this scholarly book is trendy, it is not foolish, even in the somewhat trippy parody patch. But traditionalists will not be amused. Some may demand a more serious treatment, even though this one is a bit of a slough and slow going in places. Its audience will be those interested in the commodification of Shakespeare: art meets sociology in the marketplace. Summing Up: Recommended. With reservations. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. J. M. Welsh Salisbury University