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274 - Shakespeare Documentaries

from Part XXVIII - Shakespeare and Media History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Rebecca Chapman
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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actuality representationauthenticityauthorityBardolatrybiographybiopiccinema véritédirect cinema realismdocumentaryfilmradioreceptionrehabilitationspectatortelevision
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 1954 - 1959
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Further reading

Albanese, Denise. Extramural Shakespeare. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Buchanan, Judith. Shakespeare on Silent Film: An Excellent Dumb Discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.Google Scholar
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Burnett, Mark Thornton, and Wray, Ramona, eds. Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-first Century. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2006.Google Scholar
Cartelli, Thomas. Repositioning Shakespeare: National Formations, Postcolonial Appropriations. New York: Routledge, 1993.Google Scholar
Greenhalgh, Susanne, and Shaughnessy, Robert. “Our Shakespeares: British Television and the Strains of Multiculturalism.” Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-first Century. Ed. Burnett, Mark Thornton and Wray, Ramona. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2006. 90–112.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Herold, Niels. Prison Shakespeare and the Purpose of Performance. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rosen, Philip. Change Mummified: Cinema, Historicity, Theory. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2001. (See esp. chap. 6.)Google Scholar
Scott-Douglass, Amy. Shakespeare Inside: The Bard behind Bars. London: Continuum, 2007.Google Scholar
Sturgess, Kim C. Shakespeare and the American Nation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.Google Scholar

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