Shakespeare, Bakhtin, and Film: A Dialogic Lens

by Keith Harrison

Book Overview

This book explores how Bakhtin's ideas can illuminate the compelling but uneasy fusion of Shakespeare and cinema. With a wide variety of tones, languages, cultural orientations, and thematic concerns, film directors have updated, translated, transposed, fragmented, parodied, and geographically re-situated Shakespeare. Keith Harrison illustrates how Bakhtin's interlinked writings in various fields can fruitfully be applied to an understanding of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319597426
• ISBN13: 9783319597423
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"