Shakespeare on Screen: Othello

An up-to-date survey of the key themes and debates surrounding screen adaptations and productions of Shakespeare's Othello.

Sarah Hatchuel (Edited by), Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (Edited by)

9781107109735, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 30 June 2015

258 pages, 20 b/w illus.
23.5 x 16 x 1.8 cm, 0.56 kg

'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 Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies

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 Québec, 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.

1. Introduction: ensnared in Othello on screen Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin
2. Othello on screen: monsters, marvellous space and the power of the tale Victoria Bladen
3. Rethinking blackness: the case of Olivier's Othello Peter Holland
4. Othello retold: Orson Welles's Filming Othello Sébastien Lefait
5. 'Institutionally racist': Sax's Othello and tethered presentism Peter J. Smith
6. Intertextuality in Tim Blake Nelson's 'O' Ronan Ludot-Vlasak
7. Indianizing Othello: Vishal Bhardwaj's Omkara Florence Cabaret
8. Othello in Latin America: Otelo de Oliveira and Huapango Aimara da Cunha Resende
9. Othello in Québec: André Forcier's Une histoire inventée Jennifer Drouin
10. Anna's Sin and the circulation of Othello on film Douglas M. Lanier
11. Mirroring Othello in genre films: A Double Life and Stage Beauty Kinga Földváry
12. Othello in Spanish: dubbed and subtitled versions Jesús Tronch
13. Othello on screen: select film-bibliography José Ramón Díaz Fernández
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Subject Areas: Shakespeare studies & criticism [DSGS], Shakespeare plays [DDS], Film theory & criticism [APFA]