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Almost Shakespeare
Reinventing His Works for Cinema and Television
Edited by James R. Keller and Leslie Stratyner

ISBN 978-0-7864-1909-8
photos, notes, references, index
203pp. softcover 2004

Description
In the past two decades, Othello has tried out for the basketball team, Macbeth has taken over a fast food joint and King Lear has moved to an Iowa farm—Shakespeare is everywhere in popular culture. This collection of essays addresses the use of Shakespearean narratives, themes, imagery and characterizations in non-Shakespearian cinema. The essays explore how Shakespeare and his work are manipulated within the popular media and explore topics such as racism, jealousy, misogyny and nationality.

The submissions concentrate on film and television programs that are adaptations of Shakespearean plays, including My Own Private Idaho, CSI-Miami, A Thousand Acres, Prospero’s Books, O, 10 Things I Hate About You, Withnail and I, Get Over It, and The West Wing. Each chapter includes notes and a list of works cited. A full bibliography completes the work; it is divided into bibliographies and filmographies, general studies and essays, derivatives based on a single play, derivatives based on several, and derivatives based on Shakespeare as a character.

About the Author
James R. Keller is a professor and chair of the English and Theatre department at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky. The author or editor of numerous works about popular culture, he lives in Richmond, Kentucky.







Other Book(s) by James R. Keller Available from McFarland:

Anne Rice and Sexual Politics

Queer (Un)Friendly Film and Television

The New Queer Aesthetic on Television

Food, Film and Culture

V for Vendetta as Cultural Pastiche



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