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Apr 18, 2024
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THEA 115P PO - Shakespeare on Film
CrsNo THEA115P PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2015.
Instructor(s): A. Horowitz
Since the days of the silent film, Shakespeare’s plays have been reinvented into cinematic performance vocabulary. Adaptations and deconstructions are now part of the film history of virtually every nation and culture. In this class the material for discussion and writing prompts will include over one hundred versions of Shakespeare, including those of Kurisawa, Kozintsev, Vishal Bhardwaj, Orson Welles, contemporary re-imaginings of Macbeth like Joe Macbeth, Scotland, PA, Men of Respect, and Mickey B., and Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s Caesar Must Die. In conjunction with all these works, we will explore issues such as cultural appropriation and cinematic and poetic license taken by the global artistic community of a writer once considered exclusive property of the English-speaking world. Letter grade only.
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