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This collection brings together emerging and established scholars to explore fresh approaches to Shakespeare's best-known play. Hamlet has often served as a testing ground for innovative readings and new approaches. Its unique textual history – surviving as it does in three substantially different early versions – means that it offers an especially complex and intriguing case-study for histories of early modern publishing and the relationship between page and stage. Similarly, its long history of stage and screen revival, creative appropriation and critical commentary offer rich materials for various forms of scholarship. The essays in Hamlet: The State of Play explore the play from a va...
Lively and up-to-date critical introductions to a rich range of Shakespeare adaptations for film, video and television.
Where is Adaptation? Mapping cultures, texts, and contexts explores the vast terrain of contemporary adaptation studies and offers a wide variety of answers to the title question in 24 chapters by 29 international practitioners and scholars of adaptation, both eminent and emerging. From insightful self-analyses by practitioners (a novelist, a film director, a comics artist) to analyses of adaptations of place, culture, and identity, the authors brought together in this collection represent a broad cross-section of current work in adaptation studies. From the development of technologies impacting film festivals, to the symbiotic potential of interweaving disability and adaptation studies, censorship, exploring the “glocal,” and an examination of the Association for Adaptation Studies at its 10th anniversary, the original contributions in this volume aim to trace the leading edges of this evolving field.
In the modern world, references to Shakespeare frequently mark moments of catastrophe and of the accompanying longing for restoring social order, remedying injuries, and building strong communities. Shakespeare’s moral authority has often been invoked to support artistic projects that claimed social justice as their goal on the assumption that drama has the power to manipulate perceptual reality. Drawing on cases from around the world, this book interrogates the idea that performing or reading Shakespeare has socially reparative value. It also acknowledges Shakespeare as a potential source of social well-being practices in the arts. The global framework shows that it is problematic to view Shakespeare as an impartial moral center. This book proposes that reparative creativity, or remedial uses of the canon, can give artists and audiences more agency. Having a map of canonical texts’ hidden ideologies can help readers, artists, and playgoers navigate its landscape, which is in itself a reparative act.
Of all the plays penned by William Shakespeare, one that seems especially relevant to our times is Macbeth. A tale about primal instincts and emotions, Macbeth deals with ambition love, violence and death in one breath. In Vishal Bhardawaj's scintillating adaption, the Mumbai mafia provides the backdrop for the action. The protagonist, Maqbool (Irrfan Khan), is the right-hand man of the mafia don Abbaji (Pankaj Kapur). Nimmi(Tabu), who is Abbaji's mistress, hates her situation and is in love with Maqbool, who she thinks is the only one who can put her out of her misery. Driven by his love for Nimmi and his ambition for power. Maqbool murders Abbaji and declares himself the leader of the gang. Circumstances then spiral out of control and Maqbool finds himself surrounded on all sides. Does he have the resolve to fight it any more? This unforgettable film not only portrays human emotions but also serves as a morality tale discriminating wisely between the right and the good and the wrong and the evil. The cult classic now as a book.
Contents: 1. An Explanation of James Monaco, ‘the Language of Film : Sings And Syntax’, In How To Read A Film : The World of Movies, Media And Multimedia 2. William Shakespeare’s : The Comedy of Errors, and Its Adaptation Angoor (1982 Film; Directed By Gulzar) 3. Khushwant Singh’s Train To Pakistan, and Its Adaptation Train To Pakistan (1998 Film; Directed By Pamela Rooks) 4. Rabindranath Tagore’s Kabuliwala and Its Adaptation Kabuliwala (1961 Film;Directed By Hemen Gupta) 5. William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, And Its Adaptation Maqbool (2003 Film; Directed By Vishal Bhardwaj) 6. Chetan Bhagat’s The 3 Mistakes of My Life, and Its Adaptation Kai Po Che (2013 Film; Directed By Abhishek Kapoor) 7. Script Writing 8. Dialogue Writing 9. Movie Review 10. Editing 11. Narration. Additional Information: The author of this book is R. Bansal.
BollySwar is a decade-wise compendium of information about the music of Hindi films. Volume 8 chronicles the Hindi film music of the decade between 2001 and 2010. This volume catalogues more than 1000 films and 8000 songs, involving more than 2000 music directors, lyricists and singers. An overview of the decade highlights the key artists of the decade - music directors, lyricists and singers - and discusses the emerging trends in Hindi film music. A yearly review provides listings of the year's top artists and songs and describes the key milestones of the year in Hindi film music. The bulk of the book provides the song listing of every Hindi film album released in the decade. Basic informat...
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Vol. for 2001 covers the Indian film industry from 1896-2001.
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