Overview
Shakespeare and World Cinema radically re-imagines the field of
Shakespeare on film, drawing on a wealth of examples from Africa, the
Arctic, Brazil, China, France, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore,
Tibet, Venezuela, Yemen and elsewhere. Mark Thornton Burnett explores
the contemporary significance of Shakespeare cinema outside the
Hollywood mainstream for the first time, arguing that these adaptations
are an essential part of the story of Shakespearean performance and
reception. The book reveals in unique detail the scope, inventiveness
and vitality of over seventy films that have undeservedly slipped
beneath the radar of critical attention and also discusses regional
Shakespeare cinema in Latin America and Asia. Utilising original
interviews with filmmakers throughout, it introduces new auteurs,
analyses multiple adaptations of plays such as Macbeth and Romeo and
Juliet and pioneers fresh methodologies for understanding the role that
Shakespeare continues to play in the international marketplace.