Shakespeare and YouTube : new media forms of the bard /

The video-sharing platform YouTube signals exciting opportunities and challenges for Shakespeare studies. As patron, distributor and archive, YouTube occasions new forms of user-generated Shakespeares, yet a reduced Bard too, subject to the distractions of the contemporary networked mediascape. This...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	O'Neill, Stephen, 1973- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2014.
Series:	Arden Shakespeare.
Subjects:	Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Adaptations > History and criticism. Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Influence. Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Study and teaching > Technological innovations. YouTube (Electronic resource) User-generated content. LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Interpreting YouTube Shakespeare
1. Searchable Shakespeares: Attention, Genres and Value on YouTube
2. Broadcast Your Hamlet: Convergence Culture, Shakespeare and Online Self-Expression
3. Race in YouTube Shakespeare: Ways of Seeing
4. Medium Play, Queer Erasures: Shakespeare's Sonnets on YouTube
5. The Teaching and Learning Tube: Challenges and Affordances.