El. knyga: 'Hamlet' and World Cinema

''Hamlet' and World Cinema is a remarkable book. In fact, there's nothing quite like it in the literature of Shakespeare on film. Burnett provides detailed cultural readings of thirty Hamlet films, each revealing something rich and strange about the country of origin and the moment of creation. His scholarship is astonishing as his analyses incorporate knowledge of each culture's history, politics, myths, film and stage traditions, language, as well as its appropriation of Shakespeare. He has a profound understanding of the myriad purposes Hamlet serves in these films as aesthetic object, political critique, cultural icon, or colonial intruder. The volume is not just a homage to Shakespeare's enduring impact on world cultures, but to the art of film itself.' Samuel Crowl, Ohio University '(A) virtuosic study.' Sir Stanley Wells, Times Literary Supplement 'Graced with numerous stills and engaging writing, this book demands attention.' W. W. Dixon, Choice 'We are privileged to join the author on this journey.' Michael P. Jensen, The Shakespeare Newsletter 'The book 'makes a case for Hamlet as the world's most frequently filmed text' and shows how transpositions of the play to Brazilian book review 185 favelas, a compound in northern Ghana, and Tang Dynasty China (to name justthree) have illuminated the politics of race, gender, and class in these settings 'Hamlet' and World Cinema privilege specific plays, allowing them to display the multiplicity these works have come to represent ' Sally Barnden, Shakespeare Bulletin