Spectral Shakespeares Media Adaptations In The Twentyfirst Century Maurizio Calbi by Maurizio Calbi 9780230338753, 0230338755 instant download after payment.

Spectral Shakespeares is an illuminating exploration of recent, experimental adaptations of Shakespeare on film, TV, and the web. Drawing on adaptation studies and media theory as well as Jacques Derrida's work, the book argues that these adaptations foreground a cluster of self-reflexive "themes" - from incorporation to reiteration, from migration to addiction, from silence to survival - that contribute to the redefinition of adaptation, and Shakespearean adaptation in particular, as an unfinished and interminable process. The "Shakespeare" that emerges from these adaptations is a fragmentary, mediatized, and heterogeneous presence, a spectral "Shakespeare" made of uncanny textual and media remainders that leave their mark on our contemporary mediascape.