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- ‘Hamlet’ and World Cinema
- ‘Hamlet’ and World Cinema
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- A note on texts and titles
- Introduction
- Chapter One Hamlet, Cinema and the Histories of Western Europe
- Chapter Two Thematizing Place: Hamlet, Cinema and Africa
- Chapter Three Hamlet and the Moment of Brazilian Cinema
- Chapter Four Pairing the Cinematic Prince: Hamlet, China and Japan
- Chapter Five Hamlet and Indian Cinemas: Regional Paradigms
- Chapter Six Gendering Borders: Hamlet and the Cinemas of Turkey and Iran
- Chapter Seven Materializing Hamlet in the Cinemas of Russia, Central and Eastern Europe
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter One - Hamlet, Cinema and the Histories of Western Europe
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 June 2019
- ‘Hamlet’ and World Cinema
- ‘Hamlet’ and World Cinema
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- A note on texts and titles
- Introduction
- Chapter One Hamlet, Cinema and the Histories of Western Europe
- Chapter Two Thematizing Place: Hamlet, Cinema and Africa
- Chapter Three Hamlet and the Moment of Brazilian Cinema
- Chapter Four Pairing the Cinematic Prince: Hamlet, China and Japan
- Chapter Five Hamlet and Indian Cinemas: Regional Paradigms
- Chapter Six Gendering Borders: Hamlet and the Cinemas of Turkey and Iran
- Chapter Seven Materializing Hamlet in the Cinemas of Russia, Central and Eastern Europe
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter argues that cinematic adaptations of Hamlet illuminate the cross-fertilizing ways in which Western Europe has continued to define and represent itself. The play is enlisted firstly as a means of assurance and democratization and as a channel for unease. Secondly, the play is used to ventilate conflicting national preoccupations in contexts of industrial discontent, youth culture and mass movement protest. Thirdly, the play in cinematic form points up how the post-war project of European integration comes into conflict with new developments arising from mass immigration, demographic realignment and the pressures involved in increasingly networked European organizations.
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- 'Hamlet' and World Cinema , pp. 23 - 58Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019