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Review Of Exploring Othello 2020, Vanessa I. Corredera
Review Of Exploring Othello 2020, Vanessa I. Corredera
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Presented by Red Bull Theater. 7, 14, 21, and 28 October 2020. Broadcast via Zoom and YouTube. Hosted and moderated by Ayanna Thompson. With Keith Hamilton Cobb, Franchelle Stewart Dorn, Jennifer Ikeda, Anchuli Felicia King, Peter Macon, Alfredo Narciso, DeAris Rhymes, Madeline Sayet, Jessika D. Williams, and Dawn Monique Williams.
Too Soon Forgot: The Ethics Of Remembering In Richard Iii, Now, And House Of Cards, L Monique Pittman
Too Soon Forgot: The Ethics Of Remembering In Richard Iii, Now, And House Of Cards, L Monique Pittman
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Three interconnected performances of Shakespeare's Richard III display the extreme hermeneutical volatility of representation when remediated through a celebrity's personal history. The film NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage (dir. Jeremy Whelehan, 2014) documents the Bridge Project Company's Richard III directed by Sam Mendes and starring Kevin Spacey (2011-12), a production launched at London's Old Vic and transferred to twelve cities across the globe. Just prior to the distribution of NOW, Netflix released its first season of House of Cards (2013) with Spacey as the politician, Francis Underwood, at the center of its seamy landscape. Spacey insists …
Get Out And The Remediation Of Othello's Sunken Place: Beholding White Supremacy's Coagula, Vanessa I. Corredera
Get Out And The Remediation Of Othello's Sunken Place: Beholding White Supremacy's Coagula, Vanessa I. Corredera
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As a result of director and writer Jordan Peele's remediation of the horror genre to create a racially polemic film, breakout horror-thriller Get Out (2017) has achieved critical and commercial success while substantially affecting how Americans think about and approach race. As stories about a black man amidst an all-white community who ultimately strangles his white female lover, Get Out and Shakespeare's Othello share obvious narrative overlaps. Othello, however, maintains a more tenuous status regarding race and its function within the storyline than does Get Out. Othello remains a play mired in questions about how or even whether …
Shakespeare And The Cultural Olympiad: Contesting Gender And The British Nation In The Bbc’S Hollow Crown, L Monique Pittman
Shakespeare And The Cultural Olympiad: Contesting Gender And The British Nation In The Bbc’S Hollow Crown, L Monique Pittman
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As part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad celebrating both the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics, the BBC launched a season of programs, entitled Shakespeare Unlocked, most notably presenting the plays of the second tetralogy in four feature-length adaptations released under the unifying title The Hollow Crown. These plays so obviously engaged with the question of English nationalism suited a year in which the United Kingdom wrestled with British identity in a post-colonial and post-Great Recession world. Through its adaptative and filmic vocabularies, however, The Hollow Crown advances a British nationalism unresponsive to the casualties — often women and …
Faces And Figures Of Fortune: Astrological Physiognomy In Tamburlaine Part 1., Vanessa I. Corredera
Faces And Figures Of Fortune: Astrological Physiognomy In Tamburlaine Part 1., Vanessa I. Corredera
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When articulating the relationship between man and the world around him (or her), George Peele imagines man as a canvas, a 'picture' of the universe, a microcosm whose makeup carries the 'face' or the viewable surface of the macrocosm. Peele's statement perfectly encapsulates the early modern belief in signatures and correspondences, in which 'Individual objects on earth...contain the signature of the heavenly bodies to which they supposedly correspond'. By envisioning man as a 'picture', Peele conceives of the universe as readily legible upon the human body. In his discussion of the history of signatures and correspondences in The Order of …
Big-Shouldered Shakespeare: Three Shrews At Chicago Shakespeare Theater, L. Monique Pittman
Big-Shouldered Shakespeare: Three Shrews At Chicago Shakespeare Theater, L. Monique Pittman
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This performance criticism project enlists theorist Michel de Certeau’s concepts of institutional strategy and individual tactic to examine social resistance in three productions of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew (1593/94) staged by the Midwestern Shakespearean repertory company, the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. The three productions date from CST’s new millennium rise to prominence on the Navy Pier skyline and instantiate the ways in which the theater reconciles its self-promotional image of Shakespeare the Great Humanist with the misogynist content of Taming. Since 1999, CST has staged two full-scale productions of Taming, one led by David H. Bell (2003) and …
What The Sam Chicken?, Scott Moncrieff
Revolutionary Decision, Meredith Jones-Gray
Revolutionary Decision, Meredith Jones-Gray
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Dressing The Girl/Playing The Boy: Twelfth Night Learns Soccer On The Set Of She's The Man, L Monique Pittman
Dressing The Girl/Playing The Boy: Twelfth Night Learns Soccer On The Set Of She's The Man, L Monique Pittman
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She’s The Man (2006), Andy Fickman’s adaptation of Twelfth Night, pulses with the Title Nine girl power that found cinematic voice and financial reward in Bend It Like Beckham (2002). Creating a pretext for the play’s gender swapping by entering the world of high school soccer, She’s the Man exploits conventions associated with the teen film genre–social group conformity and anxiety, crisis of identity, divorced parents, and ineffectual authority figures. Shakespeare’s cross-dressed heroine Viola becomes Viola Hastings played by Amanda Bynes, for whom this film serves as a star-vehicle showcasing Bynes’s comedic range. In some ways, the film intensifies the …
A Commitment To Excellence, Meredith Jones-Gray
A Commitment To Excellence, Meredith Jones-Gray
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Mentors And Students Seeking Knowledge, Meredith Jones-Gray
Mentors And Students Seeking Knowledge, Meredith Jones-Gray
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Locating The Bard: Adaptation And Authority In Michael Radford's The Merchant Of Venice
Locating The Bard: Adaptation And Authority In Michael Radford's The Merchant Of Venice
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Michael Radford’s adaptation of The Merchant of Venice (2004) starring Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons returns feature film Shakespeare to period setting and costuming after roughly a decade of radicalized adaptative strategies such as those of Baz Luhrmann, Michael Almereyda, and Julie Taymor, strategies that threatened to overshadow the Kenneth Branagh approach to Shakespeare’s textual and cultural authority. Radford underscores this return to “authentic” Shakespeare with a heavy directorial hand that begins the film with superimposed text recounting the sixteenth-century Venetian context of the original play setting. The watery landscape of Venice, the brothels and courtesans that entertain the Christian …
Welcome Home, Meredith Jones-Gray
Good To Great, Scott Moncrieff
Travels With (Mother) Merlene, Meredith Jones-Gray
Travels With (Mother) Merlene, Meredith Jones-Gray
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Crisis In The West End, Meredith Jones-Gray
Crisis In The West End, Meredith Jones-Gray
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Where The Cardinals Come To Sing, Scott Moncrieff
Where The Cardinals Come To Sing, Scott Moncrieff
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Emc’S Quiet Superman, Meredith Jones-Gray
After The Flames A New Andrews University/Benton Harbor Partnership, Joseph Warren
After The Flames A New Andrews University/Benton Harbor Partnership, Joseph Warren
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Planting Seed In Benton Harbor, Meredith Jones-Gray
Planting Seed In Benton Harbor, Meredith Jones-Gray
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Taming 10 Things I Hate About You: Shakespeare And The Teenage Film Audience, L Monique Pittman
Taming 10 Things I Hate About You: Shakespeare And The Teenage Film Audience, L Monique Pittman
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When I first paired William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew with Gil Junger’s film adaptation 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), my students’ responses to the juxtaposed works of art revealed a number of fascinating and deeply-rooted ideological conflicts. While more than willing to dissect the gender trouble readily observable in Shakespeare’s sixteenth-century play, my students resisted steadily any serious critique of the recent film version. The varied responses of my students coupled with their almost uniform approbation of the film and censure of the play prompt questions that lead the critic to speculation on the nature of …
An Evening To Remember, Ivan Davis
“We’Ve Only Just Begun...”, Ivan Davis
“$20,000 In Six Weeks”, Meredith Jones-Gray
“$20,000 In Six Weeks”, Meredith Jones-Gray
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Whatever Happened To Palestine?, April Summitt
Whatever Happened To Palestine?, April Summitt
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Breaking The Bank, Ivan Davis
Those “Marching Men”, Meredith Jones-Gray
High Above, Ivan Davis
A Shot In The Dark Near Tragedy Follows Snollygoster Parade, Meredith Jones-Gray
A Shot In The Dark Near Tragedy Follows Snollygoster Parade, Meredith Jones-Gray
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Loving And Dreaming, Ivan Davis