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Cambridge University Press, 9/26/2019EAN 9781108426923, ISBN10: 1108426921Hardcover, 274 pages, 23.9 x 17.2 x 2 cmLanguage: EnglishThe third volume in the re-launched series Shakes
peare on Screen is devoted to film versions and adaptations of King Lear. Bringing together an international group of scholars, the chapters provide new insights and perspectives on what constitutes 'Learness' in a range of films, TV productions, translations, free retellings and appropriations from around the world. Taking 'screen' in its broader sense, it also covers digital material such as video archives, internet movies and YouTube videos. The volume features an invaluable film-bibliography and accompanying online resources include additional essays and an expanded version of the film-bibliography.1. Introductiondis-locating King Lear on screen Victoria Bladen, Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-GuerrinPart I. Surviving LearRevisiting the Canon2. Lear's Fool on filmPeter Brook, Grigori Kozintsev, Akira Kurosawa Samuel Crowl3. Wicked humans and weeping Buddhas(post)humanism and Hell in Kurosawa's Ran Melissa CroteauPart II. Lear en abymeMetatheater and the Screen4. Filming metatheaterthe 'Dover cliff' scene on screen Sarah Hatchuel5. New ways of looking at Learchanging relationships between theatre, screen and audience in live broadcasts of King Lear (2011–2016) Rachael Nicholas6. Re-shaping old course in a country newproducing nation, culture and King Lear in Slings and Arrows Lois LeveenPart III. The Genres of Lear7. Negotiating authorship, genre and race in King of Texas (2002) Pierre Kapitaniak8. Romancing King LearHobson's Choice, Life Goes On and beyond Diana E. Henderson9. 'Easy Lear'Harry and Tonto and the American road movie Douglas M. LanierPart IV. Lear on the LooseMigrations and Appropriations of Lear10. Relocating Jewish culture in The Yiddish King Lear (1934) Jacek Fabiszak11. The Trump effectexceptionalism, global capitalism and the war on women in early twenty-first century films of King Lear Courtney Lehmann12. Looking for Lear in The Eye of the Storm Victoria Bladen13. Between political drama and soap operaappropriations of King Lear in US television series Boss and Empire Sylvaine Bataille and Anaïs Pauchet14. AfterwordGodard's King Lear Peter Holland15. King Lear on screenselect film-bibliography José Ramón DÃÂaz Fernández.
