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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Devouring time
    sub title: nostalgia in contemporary Shakespearean screen adaptations
  name:
    name part: Sheppard, Philippa
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: quc
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 426 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: From Kenneth Branagh's ground-breaking Henry V to Justin Kurzel's haunting Macbeth, many modern filmmakers have adapted Shakespeare for the big screen. Their translations of Renaissance plays to modern cinema both highlight and comment on contemporary culture and attitudes to art, identity and the past. A dynamic analysis of twenty-seven films adapted from Shakespeare's works, Philippa Sheppard's Devouring Time addresses a wide range of topics, including gender, ritual, music, setting, rhetoric and editing. She argues that the directors' choice to adapt these four-hundred-year old plays is an act of nostalgia, not only for the plays themselves, but also for the period in which they were written, the association of genius that accompanies them and the medium of theatre. Sheppard contends that millennial anxiety brought on by the social and technological revolutions of the last five decades has generated a yearning for Shakespeare because he is an icon of a literary culture often now deemed threatened. Authoritative and accessible, Devouring Time's investigations of filmmakers' nostalgia for the art of the past shed light on Western and pre-twentieth-century concepts of gender, identity and colonialism.
  note: Philippa Sheppard.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [367]-407) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shakespeare, William
      name part: 1564-1616
    genre: Film adaptations
  subject:
    topic: English drama
    genre: Film adaptations
  subject:
    topic: Film adaptations
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures and literature
  subject:
    topic: Nostalgia in motion pictures
  classification: PR3093 .S55 2017
  classification: 791.43/6
  identifier: 0773550194
  identifier: 9780773550193
  identifier: 0773550208
  identifier: 9780773550209
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 161125
    record change date: 20170926120249.0
    record identifier: in00003874127
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng