Shakespeare on Screen: Othello

Description

The first volume in the re-launched series Shakespeare on Screen is devoted to Othello, offering up-to-date coverage of recent screen versions as well as new critical essays on older, canonical films. An international cast of authors explores not only productions from the USA and UK, but also translations, adaptations and appropriations in Quebec, Italy, India, Brazil and Mexico. The volume takes part in the ceaseless cultural investigation of what Othello says about Shakespeare, the past and our present time, supported by an invaluable film-bibliography. Accompanying free online resources include a fuller version of the bibliography and an additional contribution on YouTube versions of Othello. This book will be a valuable resource for students, scholars and teachers of film studies and Shakespeare studies.

Sarah Hatchuel is Professor of English Literature and Film at the University of Le Havre and the President of the Societe Francaise Shakespeare. She has written extensively on adaptations of Shakespeare's plays. She is the author of Shakespeare and the Cleopatra/Caesar Intertext: Sequel, Conflation, Remake (2011) and Shakespeare, from Stage to Screen (Cambridge, 2004). She also edited Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra in The New Kittredge Shakespeare collection (2008) and co-edited, with Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin, the Shakespeare on Screen series (from 2003-13. Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin is Professor in Shakespeare Studies at Universite Paul Valery, Montpellier. She is Co-General Editor (with Jean-Christophe Mayer) of Cahiers Elisabethains and co-director (with Patricia Dorval) of the Shakespeare on Screen in Francophonia Database (shakscreen.org). She is the author of The Unruly Tongue in Early Modern England, Three Treatises (2012) and co-edited, with Sarah Hatchuel, the Shakespeare on Screen series (from 2003-13.

'Shakespeare on Screen: Othello overturns conventional narratives about this play's life on screen. Hatchuel and Vienne-Guerrin curate a volume that treats Othello as a truly international text, privileging little-known meta-narratives alongside mainstream Western cinema. Essays unpack the adaptations' engagement with domestic violence, racial prejudice and sexual politics, making this the most vital and thorough treatment available of the play's contemporary resonance.' Peter Kirwan, University of Nottingham 'The volume, an impressive grappling with films that range from those in a classic realist mode, through modernist pastiche and postcolonialism and postmodernism, will become an inspiring and necessary handbook for countless scholars and students.' Michael Hattaway, Cahiers Elisabethains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies