Search results for " Hamlet"

Shakespeare in the Extreme: Addiction, Ghosts and (Re)Mediation in Alexander Fodor’s Hamlet

2011

This article is an analysis of Fodor's filmic version of Hamlet as simultaneously reverent and irreverent toward the canonical status of the Bard. It shows how Hamlet is being recycled by being brought into contact with contemporary citational environments, from pop music to drug culture.

“This England”: Re-Visiting Shakespearean Landscapes and Mediascapes in John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses (2010)

2017

The paper will offer a reading of John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses (2010), a 90-minute experimental feature film that has been defined as “one of the most vital and original artistic responses to the subject of immigration that British cinema has ever produced” (Mitchell). It will focus on the multifarious ways in which the film makes the “canonical” literary material that it incorporates, including Shakespeare, interact with rarely seen archival material from the BBC regarding the experience of Caribbean and South Asian immigrants in 1950s and 1960s Britain. It will argue that through this interaction the familiarity of Western “canonical” literature re-presents itself as an uncanny landscap…

The Ambivalence of Revenge and of the Avenger's Role in HAMLET: The Function of Letters and Emblematic Allusions

2011

L’Effet Hamlet: une dégénérescence transformationnelle?

2022

Max a enfermé Tom dans la cave does not specify whether Tom was in the cellar before being locked up or not. This article shows how this semantic indeterminacy, highlighted and called Effet Hamlet by Jean-Paul Boons in the late seventies, should perhaps be considered a fall-out of syn- tactic transformational processes.