Shakespeare Cinema of Love A Study in Genre and Influence 1st Edition by White 9781526107824 1526107821

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ISBN 10: 1526107821 
ISBN 13: 9781526107824 
Author: R. S. White 

This engaging and stimulating book argues that Shakespeare’s plays significantly influenced movie genres in the twentieth century, particularly in films concerning love in the classic Hollywood period. Shakespeare’s ‘green world’ has a close functional equivalent in ‘tinseltown’ and on ‘the silver screen’, as well as in hybrid genres in Bollywood cinema. Meanwhile, Romeo and Juliet continues to be an enduring source for romantic tragedy on screen. The nature of generic indebtedness has not gained recognition because it is elusive and not always easy to recognise. The book traces generic links between Shakespeare’s comedies of love and screen genres such as romantic comedy, ‘screwball’ comedy and musicals, as well as clarifying the use of common conventions defining the genres, such as mistaken identity, ‘errors’, disguise and ‘shrew-taming’. Speculative, challenging and entertaining, the book will appeal to those interested in Shakespeare, movies and the representation of love in narratives.

Shakespeare Cinema of Love A Study in Genre and Influence 1st Table of contents:

1 ‘Madly mated’: The Taming of the Shrew and Odd-Couple Comedy

• Filmed versions of Shakespeare’s Shrew

• A musical Shrew

• ‘Odd-couple’ comedy

• All about Bianca

• Who’s afraid of shrews?

• Notes

2 Dreams in the Forest: Romantic Comedy

• Shakespearean comedy as composite form

• Dreams in a green world

• Art writing the script of love: playing roles in As You Like It

• Notes

3 ‘The Guy’s Only Doing It for Some Doll’: Musical Comedy

• Shakespeare in musicals

• Allusions to Shakespeare

• Contrasted settings and backstage musicals

• Musicals of family romance

• Much ado about Nathan

• Notes

4 Of Errors and Eros: A Brief Digression on Twins

• Notes

5 Comedy of Disguise and Mistaken Identity

• Gendered disguise

• Cross-dressing in films

• ‘Slumming’: class, non-gendered disguise, and mistaken identity

• Notes

6 ‘Star-Crossed Lovers’: Romeo and Juliet and Romantic Tragedy

• Landmark versions

• Out of America

• World film

• India: folklore meets Shakespeare

• A Welsh Romeo and Juliet

• Star-crossed comedy and parodies

• Notes

Conclusion

• Notes

Bibliography

Index

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