Apocalyptic Shakespeare

Melissa Croteau is an associate professor of literature and film studies at California Baptist University. Carolyn Jess-Cooke is a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Northumbria. She lives in Tyne and Wear, England.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Introduction: Beginning at the EndsMELISSA CROTEAU      1. The “great doom’s image”: Apocalyptic Trajectories in Contemporary Shakespearean FilmmakingRAMONA WRAY      2. Apocalyptic Paternalism, Family Values, and the War of the Cinemas; or, How Shakespeare Became PosthumanCOURTNEY LEHMANN      3. Liberty’s Taken, or How “captive women may be cleansed and used”: Julie Taymor’s Titus and 9/11KIM FEDDERSON and J. MICHAEL RICHARDSON      4. Post-Apocalyptic Spaces in Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + JulietRICHARD VELA      5. Celluloid Revelations: Millennial Culture and Dialogic“Pastiche” in Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet (2000)MELISSA CROTEAU      6. The Revenger’s Tragedy in 2002: Alex Cox’s Punk ApocalypseGRETCHEN E. MINTON      7. The Plague in Filmed Versions of Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth NightCARL JAMES GRINDLEY      8. The Politics of Apocalypse: Interrogating Conversion in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ and Michael Radford’s The Merchant of VeniceADRIAN STREETE      9. Disney’s “War Efforts”: The Lion King and Education for Death; or, Shakespeare Made Easy for Your Apocalyptic ConvenienceALFREDO MICHEL MODENESSI      10. Four Funerals and a Bedding: Freud and the Post-Apocalyptic Apocalypse of Jean-Luc Godard’s King LearANTHONY R. GUNERATNE      11. “The Promised End” of Cinema: Portraits of Apocalypse in Post-Millennial Shakespearean FilmCAROLYN JESS-COOKE      About the Contributors      Index