Shakespeare on Screen: Othello
Shakespeare on Screen: <I>Othello</I>
Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier
The first volume in the re-launched series Shakespeare on Screen is devoted to Othello, offering up-to-date coverage of recent screen versions as well as new critical essays on older, canonical films. An international cast of authors explores not only productions from the USA and UK, but also translations, adaptations and appropriations in Québec, Italy, India, Brazil and Mexico. The volume takes part in the ceaseless cultural investigation of what Othello says about Shakespeare, the past and our present time, supported by an invaluable film-bibliography. Accompanying free online resources include a fuller version of the bibliography and an additional contribution on YouTube versions of Othello. This book will be a valuable resource for students, scholars and teachers of film studies and Shakespeare studies.
- Offers up-to-date coverage of recent screen versions as well as new critical reviews of canonical films
- Includes a select film-bibliography, as well as accompanying online resources at www.cambridge.org/9781107109735
- Written by an international team of leading scholars, examining productions from around the world
Reviews & endorsements
"Shakespeare on Screen: Othello overturns conventional narratives about this play's life on screen. Hatchuel and Vienne-Guerrin curate a volume that treats Othello as a truly international text, privileging little-known meta-narratives alongside mainstream Western cinema. Essays unpack the adaptations' engagement with domestic violence, racial prejudice and sexual politics, making this the most vital and thorough treatment available of the play's contemporary resonance."
Peter Kirwan, University of Nottingham
'The volume, an impressive grappling with films that range from those in a classic realist mode, through modernist pastiche and postcolonialism and postmodernism, will become an inspiring and necessary handbook for countless scholars and students.' Michael Hattaway, Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies
Product details
October 2017Paperback
9781107525238
259 pages
230 × 153 × 14 mm
0.4kg
20 b/w illus.
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: ensnared in Othello on screen Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin
- 2. Othello on screen: monsters, marvellous space and the power of the tale Victoria Bladen
- 3. Rethinking blackness: the case of Olivier's Othello Peter Holland
- 4. Othello retold: Orson Welles's Filming Othello Sébastien Lefait
- 5. 'Institutionally racist': Sax's Othello and tethered presentism Peter J. Smith
- 6. Intertextuality in Tim Blake Nelson's 'O' Ronan Ludot-Vlasak
- 7. Indianizing Othello: Vishal Bhardwaj's Omkara Florence Cabaret
- 8. Othello in Latin America: Otelo de Oliveira and Huapango Aimara da Cunha Resende
- 9. Othello in Québec: André Forcier's Une histoire inventée Jennifer Drouin
- 10. Anna's Sin and the circulation of Othello on film Douglas M. Lanier
- 11. Mirroring Othello in genre films: A Double Life and Stage Beauty Kinga Földváry
- 12. Othello in Spanish: dubbed and subtitled versions Jesús Tronch
- 13. Othello on screen: select film-bibliography José Ramón DÃaz Fernández
- Index.
