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Cowboy Hamlets and Zombie Romeos: Shakespeare in Genre Film

Cowboy Hamlets and Zombie Romeos: Shakespeare in Genre Film

Földváry, Kinga

Hardcover

Series: Manchester University Press

Literary CriticismFilm Studies

ISBN10: 1526142090
ISBN13: 9781526142092
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Dec 16 2020
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.42
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The book presents a systematic method of interpreting Shakespeare film adaptations based on their cinematic genres. Its approach is both scholarly and reader-friendly, and its subject is fundamentally interdisciplinary, combining the findings of Shakespeare scholarship with film and media studies, particularly genre theory. The book is organised into six large chapters, discussing films that form broad generic groups. Part I looks at three genres from the classical Hollywood era (western, melodrama and gangster-noir), while Part II deals with three contemporary blockbuster genres (teen film, undead horror and biopic). Beside a few better-known examples of mainstream cinema, the volume also highlights the Shakespearean elements in several nearly forgotten films, bringing them back to critical attention.

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