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Item Details
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UNSPEAKABLE SHAXXXSPEARES
QUEER THEORY AND AMERICAN KIDDIE CULTURE |
| By: |
Richard Burt |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£77.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0333753275 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780333753279 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
1 December, 1998 |
| Pages: |
336 |
| Description: |
This is a look at the wide range of adaptations, spin offs, and citations of Shakespeare's plays in 1990s popular culture. Instead of lamenting this unusual dissemination of Shakespeare, the author reads the reception of these often quite bad replays in relation to youth cuture. |
| Synopsis: |
This is a look at the wide range of adaptations, spin offs, and citations of Shakespeare's plays in 1990s popular culture. The Bard has permeated contemporary film, television, video, and electronic media such as Internet Websites and CD ROMs in direct translation, interpretation, and as a cultural icon. While we may be familiar with Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh's film adaptations of the plays, what does it say about our culture when Shakespearean references turn up in television episodes of "The Brady Bunch" and "Gilligan's Island", films like "In and Out" and "My Own Private Idaho", and hardcore porn adaptations of "Hamlet" and "Romeo and Juliet"? Instead of lamenting this unusual dissemination of Shakespeare from a position of literary authority, Burt reads the reception of these often quite bad replays in relation to the contemporary youth culture and the "queering" of Shakespeare.Documenting an array of Shakespearean citations that are so far from their originals that they no longer count as interpretation of the plays, Burt considers what Shakespeare enables American popular culture to do that it couldn't otherwise do without him and scrutinizes academic fantasies about fandom and stardom. |
| Illustrations: |
notes, bibliography |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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