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viii, 235 pages : 23 cm, \"Films covered include Titus, William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, Almereyda's Hamlet, Revengers Tragedy, Twelfth Night, The Passion of the Christ, Radford's The Merchant of Venice, The Lion King, and Godard's King Lear, among others. Essays chart the apocalyptic mise-en-scènes, disorienting imagery, and topsy-turvy plots of these films, using apocalypse as a theoretical and thematic lens\"--Provided by publisher, Includes bibliographical references and index, Introduction : beginning at the ends / Melissa Croteau -- The \"great doom's image\" : apocalyptic trajectories in contemporary Shakespearean filmmaking / Ramona Wray -- Apocalyptic paternalism, family values, and the war of the cinemas; or, how Shakespeare became posthuman / Courtney Lehmann -- Liberty's taken, or how \"captive women may be cleansed and used\" : Julie Taymor's Titus and 9/11 / Kim Fedderson and J. Michael Richardson -- Post-apocalyptic spaces in Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet / Richard Vela -- Celluloid revelations : millennial culture and dialogic \"pastiche\" in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet (2000) / Melissa Coteau -- The revenger's tragedy in 2002 : Alex Cox's

Author

Croteau, Melissa; Jess-Cooke, Carolyn, 1978-

Publisher

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co.

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780786433926

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Performing Arts