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Chasing Shakespeare: The Impurity of the “Not Quite” in Norry Niven’s From Above and Abbas Kiarostami’s Where Is My Romeo

2017

The essay situates the “not Shakespeare” of this volume within the theoretical problematics of the “post-textual.” It re-elaborates the “post-textual” as the uncanny re-appearance of Shakespeare in the form of heterogeneous fragments that are made to cohabit with various textual and media environments. These media products include a “Shakespeare” that is not quite Shakespeare, an “entity” that becomes the site of unceasing transactions (for instance, between an “outside” and an “inside,” between visibility and invisibility, between the “original” and its iteration) and multiple contaminations (through media, characters, and plays).

LiteratureEngineeringInvisibilitybusiness.industryVisibility (geometry)Norry Niven Abbas Kiarostami Jacques Derrida Douglas Lanier Romeo and Juliet From Above Where Is My Romeo Post-textual ShakespeareShakespeare. Kiarostami Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare on Film;Norry Niven Abbas Kiarostami Jacques Derrida Douglas Lanier Romeo and Juliet From Above Where Is My Romeo Post-textual Shakespeare as pharmakon Spectrality and media technology The Tempest Affect Franco ZeffirelliShakespeare on Filmas pharmakon Spectrality and media technology The Tempest Affect Franco ZeffirelliShakespeare / Not Shakespeare Adaptation Romeo and JulietShakespeare. KiarostamibusinessUncannySettore L-LIN/10 - Letteratura IngleseRomeo and Juliet
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‘‘This is my home, too’’: Migration, spectrality and hospitality inRoberta Torre’s Sud Side Stori (2000)

2011

The article explores Roberta Torre’s film Sud Side Stori (2000), an extravagant Italian re-vision of Romeo and Juliet set in the Sicilian city of Palermo which displays awareness of the global circulation of the story of the two ‘‘star-crossed lovers’’. In the film, which combines neo-realist cinematographic techniques with the artificial style of the musical, Shakespeare’s young lovers become Toni Giulietto, a lousy local rock singer, and Romea Wacoubo, a beautiful Nigerian prostitute who falls in love with him when she sees him standing on his balcony. Not unlike West Side Story, the inter-racial passion between Toni and Romea exacerbates pre-existing ethnic conflicts. It is opposed not o…

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