Beyond Shakespeare

Film Studies, Performance Studies, and Netflix

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Av Iris H. Tuan

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With joy and grace to accompany the readers to have the translocal tour to visit about thirty-seven works, this monograph applies the academic critical theories of Performance Studies, Film Studies, Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, and Visual Culture, to interpreting the special selection works.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-07-26
Mått148 x 210 x 21 mm
Vikt503 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor269
FörlagSpringer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN9789811994012

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Iris H. Tuan is a Professor at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan.Tuan received her Ph.D. in Theater from UCLA. Tuan was a Visiting Scholar in the Departmentof English at Harvard University. Her excellent and prolific publications include hundreds ofpapers and ten books, such as Pop with Gods, Shakespeare, and AI: Popular Film, (Musical)Theatre, and TV Drama (2020), Translocal Performance in Asian Theatre and Film (PalgraveMacmillan, 2018), and co-edited Transnational Performance, Identity and Mobility in Asia(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Part I Asian American Theatre and Asian Performances.- Chapter 2 Race and Identity in David Henry Hwang's Plays and Musicals.- Chapter 3 River/Cloud: Fill in the Blank via Memory, Imagination, and Meta-theatre.- Chapter 4 Theatre Ecology, Nature, and Politics in Shakespeare’s Plays and Hold On, Love!.- Part II Shakespeare.- Chapter 5 Food/Drink Consumption, Emotions, and Obsessions in Shakespeare’s Plays and Art.- Chapter 6 Women and the `Feminine’ by Quoting Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Image Change in Screen.- Chapter 7 During COVID-19 Pandemics, Reflect on Plagues in Shakespeare’s Plays.- Chapter 8 Post-modern Bizarre & Post-human Zombie: Warm Bodies and Titus.- Chapter 9 Images, Travelling, and Visual Culture in Shakespeare’s Plays: Through and Beyond Repetition.- Part III Netflix TV Dramas.- Chapter 10 Immaterial Representations in Altered Carbon: Sex, Body, and Memories.- Chapter 11 (In)Hospitality and Visual Culture in Downton Abbey.- Chapter 12 Conclusion.

“There was a plague in Shakespeare’s time (Lear, Macbeth and Titus Andronicus were written during plague years), food and drink in Shakespeare (audiences ate and drank during his plays) … . There is, in other words, a similar eclecticism in this book, together with a constant emphasis on performance. Iris Tuan rakes it in as grist for her comprehensive mill. Titus Andronicus is interesting … .” (taipeitimes.com, April 18, 2024)