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This collection of essays examines the ways in which recent Shakespeare films portray anxieties about an impending global wasteland, technological alienation, spiritual destruction, and the effects of globalization. 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 that directly adapt or reference Shakespeare. Essays chart the apocalyptic mise-en-scenes, disorienting imagery, and topsy-turvy plots of these films, using apocalypse as a theoretical and thematic lens.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Beginning at the Ends
MELISSA CROTEAU
1. The "great doom's image": Apocalyptic Trajectories in Contemporary Shakespearean Filmmaking
RAMONA WRAY
2. Apocalyptic Paternalism, Family Values, and the War of the Cinemas; or, How Shakespeare Became Posthuman
COURTNEY LEHMANN
3. 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
4. Post-Apocalyptic Spaces in Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
RICHARD VELA
5. Celluloid Revelations: Millennial Culture and Dialogic
"Pastiche" in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet (2000)
MELISSA CROTEAU
6. The Revenger's Tragedy in 2002: Alex Cox's Punk Apocalypse
GRETCHEN E. MINTON
7. The Plague in Filmed Versions of Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night
CARL JAMES GRINDLEY
8. The Politics of Apocalypse: Interrogating Conversion in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ and Michael Radford's The Merchant of Venice
ADRIAN STREETE
9. Disney's "War Efforts": The Lion King and Education for Death; or, Shakespeare Made Easy for Your Apocalyptic Convenience
ALFREDO MICHEL MODENESSI
10. Four Funerals and a Bedding: Freud and the Post-Apocalyptic Apocalypse of Jean-Luc Godard's King Lear
ANTHONY R. GUNERATNE
11. "The Promised End" of Cinema: Portraits of Apocalypse in Post-Millennial Shakespearean Film
CAROLYN JESS-COOKE
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