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Item Details
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EARLY MODERN TRAGEDY AND THE CINEMA OF VIOLENCE
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| By: |
Stevie Simkin |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£69.60 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0230597114 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780230597112 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
15 December, 2005 |
| Synopsis: |
Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence is a highly original study that considers two genres set four hundred years apart - revenge tragedies of the early seventeenth-century and violent cinema of the last thirty years. What happens when we connect The White Devil with Basic Instinct? The Changeling or Titus Andronicus with Straw Dogs? Doctor Faustus with Se7en? Taxi Driver or Robocop with The Spanish Tragedy? The book offers a series of provocative and insightful explorations of key issues, including revenge and justice, gender and violence, and death and the damaged body. Simkin's work will appeal to those interested in contemporary film and to those interested in tragedies of Shakespeare's era. However its unique approach also invites the reader to explore texts from both genres and to read them in parallel. Written in an engaging and accessible style, the book also reflects on the division between high culture and popular culture, and the enduring significance of the revenge motif in Western culture over the past four hundred years, particularly in the post-9/11 context. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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