Shakespeare, Bakhtin, and Film

Keith Harrison is Academic Emeritus of English and Creative Writing & Journalism at Vancouver Island University, Canada. He has written two dozen scholarly essays on a variety of topics and has published five novels, including Eyemouth and Furry Creek. His literary papers are held in Special Collections at The Simon Fraser University Library, Canada.

• 1. William Shakespeare and Mikhail Bakhtin: Filming Dialogically.- 2. Chronotopes and Categories of Shakespeare-inflected Films.- 3. Chronotopic Images and Cinematic Dialogism with Shakespeare.- 4. Kurosawa, Kozintsev, Kaurismäki, and Almereyda: Hamlet and Transnational Dialogism.- 5. Withnail and I: The Ghost of Shakespeare.- 6. Bakhtinian Polyphony in Godard’s King Lear.- 7. Shakespeare Shaping in Dogme95 Films, and Bakhtin’s Theory of Tragedy.- 8. Scotland, PA: Parody, Nostalgia, Irony, and Menippean Satire.- 9. Romeo and Juliet, Polyglossia, and the Romantic Politics of Deepa Mehta’s Water.- 10. Unfinalizability and Cinematic Shakespeare.