Description: Spectral Shakespeares by M. Calbi Spectral Shakespeares is an illuminating exploration of recent, experimental adaptations of Shakespeare on film, TV, and the web. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Spectral Shakespeares is an illuminating exploration of recent, experimental adaptations of Shakespeare on film, TV, and the web. Drawing on adaptation studies and media theory as well as Jacques Derridas work, this book argues that these adaptations foreground a cluster of self-reflexive "themes" - from incorporation to reiteration, from migration to addiction, from silence to survival - that contribute to the redefinition of adaptation, and Shakespearean adaptation in particular, as an unfinished and interminable process. The "Shakespeare" that emerges from these adaptations is a fragmentary, mediatized, and heterogeneous presence, a spectral Shakespeare that leaves a mark on our contemporary mediascape. Back Cover Spectral Shakespeares is an illuminating exploration of recent, experimental adaptations of Shakespeare on film, TV, and the web. Drawing on adaptation studies and media theory as well as Jacques Derridas work, this book argues that these adaptations foreground a cluster of self-reflexive "themes" - from incorporation to reiteration, from migration to addiction, from silence to survival - that contribute to the redefinition of adaptation, and Shakespearean adaptation in particular, as an unfinished and interminable process. The "Shakespeare" that emerges from these adaptations is a fragmentary, mediatized, and heterogeneous presence, a spectral Shakespeare that leaves a mark on our contemporary mediascape. Author Biography Maurizio Calbi is Professor of English Literature at the University of Salerno, Italy. He is the author of Approximate Bodies: Gender and Power in Early Modern Drama and Anatomy and has published on Shakespeare and early modern culture, screen adaptations, postcolonial literature, and postcolonial rewritings of Shakespeare. Table of Contents Introduction: Shakespeare, Spectro-Textuality, Spectro-Mediality1. The State of the Kitchen: Incorporation and "Animanomaly" in Scotland, PA and the BBC Shakespeare Retold Macbeth2. Shakespearean Retreats: Spectrality, Survival, and Auto-Immunity in Kristian Levrings The King Is Alive 3. Reiterating Othello: Spectral Media and the Rhetoric of Silence in Alexander Abelas Souli 4. This Is My Home, Too: Migration, Spectrality, and Hospitality in Roberta Torres Sud Side Stori 5. "Shakespeare in the Extreme": Ghosts and Remediation in Alexander Fodors Hamlet6. Restless Ecstasy: Addiction, Reiteration, and Mediality in Klaus Knoesels Rave Macbeth7. He speaks...Or Rather...He Tweets: The Specter of the "Original," Media, and Media-Crossed Love in Such Tweet Sorrow Review "[Maurizio Calbi] consider issues of remediation and multimodality through, respectively, cinematic and digital appropriations of Shakespeare in Alexander Fodors Hamlet, Klaus Knoesels Rave Macbeth, and Such Tweet Sorrow. It is this unique focus on the intersections between multicultural and multimodal Shakespeares that sets Calbis book apart as an insightful, original contribution to adaptation studies. Calbi makes readers remain uneasy with his Shakespearean specters. His initial reading of twenty-first century Shakespeares as fragmentary and multiple does not simply leave us with friendly ghosts at textual play; instead, he posits the current intersections of global/local, homely/foreign, and connected/disconnected in new media Shakespeare as inequitable, disturbing contact zones." - Borrowers and Lenders "Calbis writing constitutes theoretical criticism at its best. Moving between the BBCs Shakespea(Re)-Told season, arthouse films, and social networking discussion, as well as other cultural products and practices, the author showcases a rich array of ghostly renderings of the Bard. By turns seductive and heretical, and as arresting as it is intriguing, Spectral Shakespeares ranges ambitiously across time and space to argue passionately and persuasively for the crucial significance of Shakespeares multi-layered and multi-mediatized afterlives." - Mark Thornton Burnett, Professor, Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland "International in scope yet well-focused, theoretically complex yet admirably lucid, Maurizio Calbis Spectral Shakespeares traces how Shakespeare has been disseminated and fundamentally transformed by myriad new media in the twenty-first century. The result is an utterly dazzling, state-of-the-art discussion that recasts the study of Shakespearean adaptation from the ground up, challenging us to take fuller account of the ways in which our Shakespeare is inescapably telemediated and to confront the full implications of Shakespeares ghostly nature as we watch his image flicker across our screens. The chapter on Such Tweet Sorrow is particularly outstanding as a model for considering how new formats extend and reshape what counts as Shakespeare in the contemporary mediascape. An instant classic in the field, and absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in Shakespeares cultural afterlife in the new century." - Douglas Lanier, Professor of English, University of New Hampshire, USA Promotional "[Maurizio Calbi] consider issues of remediation and multimodality through, respectively, cinematic and digital appropriations of Shakespeare in Alexander Fodors Hamlet, Klaus Knoesels Rave Macbeth, and Such Tweet Sorrow. It is this unique focus on the intersections between multicultural and multimodal Shakespeares that sets Calbis book apart as an insightful, original contribution to adaptation studies. Calbi makes readers remain uneasy with his Shakespearean specters. His initial reading of twenty-first century Shakespeares as fragmentary and multiple does not simply leave us with friendly ghosts at textual play; instead, he posits the current intersections of global/local, homely/foreign, and connected/disconnected in new media Shakespeare as inequitable, disturbing contact zones." - Borrowers and Lenders "Calbis writing constitutes theoretical criticism at its best. Moving between the BBCs Shakespea(Re)-Told season, arthouse films, and social networking discussion, as well as other cultural products and practices, the author showcases a rich array of ghostly renderings of the Bard. By turns seductive and heretical, and as arresting as it is intriguing, Spectral Shakespeares ranges ambitiously across time and space to argue passionately and persuasively for the crucial significance of Shakespeares multi-layered and multi-mediatized afterlives." - Mark Thornton Burnett, Professor, Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland "International in scope yet well-focused, theoretically complex yet admirably lucid, Maurizio Calbis Spectral Shakespeares traces how Shakespeare has been disseminated and fundamentally transformed by myriad new media in the twenty-first century. The result is an utterly dazzling, state-of-the-art discussion that recasts the study of Shakespearean adaptation from the ground up, challenging us to take fuller account of the ways in which our Shakespeare is inescapably telemediated and to confront the full implications of Shakespeares ghostly nature as we watch his image flicker across our screens. The chapter on Such Tweet Sorrow is particularly outstanding as a model for considering how new formats extend and reshape what counts as Shakespeare in the contemporary mediascape. An instant classic in the field, and absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in Shakespeares cultural afterlife in the new century." - Douglas Lanier, Professor of English, University of New Hampshire, USA Long Description Spectral Shakespeares is an illuminating exploration of experimental adaptations of Shakespeare on film, TV, and the web. Drawing on adaptation studies, media theory, and Derridas work, the "Shakespeare" that emerges from these adaptations is a fragmentary and mediatized presence that leaves a mark on our contemporary mediascape. Review Quote "[Maurizio Calbi] consider issues of remediation and multimodality through, respectively, cinematic and digital appropriations of Shakespeare in Alexander Fodors Hamlet, Klaus Knoesels Rave Macbeth, and Such Tweet Sorrow. It is this unique focus on the intersections between multicultural and multimodal Shakespeares that sets Calbis book apart as an insightful, original contribution to adaptation studies. Calbi makes readers remain uneasy with his Shakespearean specters. His initial reading of twenty-first century Shakespeares as fragmentary and multiple does not simply leave us with friendly ghosts at textual play; instead, he posits the current intersections of global/local, homely/foreign, and connected/disconnected in new media Shakespeare as inequitable, disturbing contact zones." - Borrowers and Lenders "Calbis writing constitutes theoretical criticism at its best. Moving between the BBCs Shakespea(Re)-Told season, arthouse films, and social networking discussion, as well as other cultural products and practices, the author showcases a rich array of ghostly renderings of the Bard. By turns seductive and heretical, and as arresting as it is intriguing, Spectral Shakespeares ranges ambitiously across time and space to argue passionately and persuasively for the crucial significance of Shakespeares multi-layered and multi-mediatized afterlives." - Mark Thornton Burnett, Professor, Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland "International in scope yet well-focused, theoretically complex yet admirably lucid, Maurizio Calbis Spectral Shakespeares traces how Shakespeare has been disseminated and fundamentally transformed by myriad new media in the twenty-first century. The result is an utterly dazzling, state-of-the-art discussion that recasts the study of Shakespearean adaptation from the ground up, challenging us to take fuller account of the ways in which our Shakespeare is inescapably telemediated and to confront the full implications of Shakespeares ghostly nature as we watch his image flicker across our screens. The chapter on Such Tweet Sorrow is particularly outstanding as a model for considering how new formats extend and reshape what counts as Shakespeare in the contemporary mediascape. An instant classic in the field, and absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in Shakespeares cultural afterlife in the new century." - Douglas Lanier, Professor of English, University of New Hampshire, USA Feature Focuses on recent twentyfirst century adaptations of Shakespeare, including analyses of phenomena such as Shakespeare on social networking media Looks at nonAnglophone adaptations of Shakespeare, offers a new approach to debates about translation, and draws new conclusions on "local" vs. "global" Shakespeares Adopts and combines theoretical perspectives (from Derrida to Lacan, from Agamben to Levinas) which are rarely used in studies of this kind Details ISBN1349341843 Series Reproducing Shakespeare Language English ISBN-10 1349341843 ISBN-13 9781349341849 Format Paperback Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Short Title SPECTRAL SHAKESPEARES 2013/E Media Book DEWEY 822.33 Year 2013 Publication Date 2013-10-01 Pages 236 Edition 1st Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle Media Adaptations in the Twenty-First Century Place of Publication Basingstoke Country of Publication United Kingdom Author M. Calbi UK Release Date 2013-10-01 AU Release Date 2013-10-01 NZ Release Date 2013-10-01 Illustrations XI, 236 p. Edition Description 1st ed. 2013 Alternative 9780230338753 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:126662244;
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