Mark Thornton BurnettCambridge University Press, 7/4/2019EAN 9781107135505, ISBN10: 1107135508Hardcover, 294 pages, 22.1 x 19.6 x 1.8 cmLanguage: English'Hamlet' and World Cinema reveals a rich history of cinematic production extending across the globe. Making a case for Hamlet as the world's most frequently filmed text, and using specially commissioned interviews with cast, directors and screenwriters, it discusses films from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. The book argues that the play has been taken up by filmmakers world-wide to allegorise the energies, instabilities, traumas and expectations that have defined the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In so doing, it rejects the Anglophone focus which has dominated criticism up to now and explores instead the multiple constituencies that have claimed Shakespeare's most celebrated work as their own. 'Hamlet' and World Cinema uncovers a vital part of the adaptation story. This book facilitates a fresh understanding of Shakespeare's cinematic significance and newly highlights Hamlet's political and aesthetic instrumentality in a vast range of local and global contexts.1. Hamlet, cinema and the histories of Western Europe2. Thematising placeHamlet, cinema and Africa3. Hamlet and the moment of Brazilian cinema4. Pairing the cinematic PrinceHamlet, China and Japan5. Hamlet and Indian cinemasregional paradigms6. Gendering bordersHamlet and the cinemas of Turkey and Iran7. Materialising Hamlet in the cinemas of Russia, Central and Eastern Europe.
