Beyond Shakespeare : film studies, performance studies, and Netflix / Iris H. Tuan.
Tuan, Iris Hsin-chun, author.
2023
PR2965
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Title Beyond Shakespeare : film studies, performance studies, and Netflix / Iris H. Tuan.
Author Tuan, Iris Hsin-chun, author.
ISBN 9789811994029 (electronic bk.)
9811994021 (electronic bk.)
9789811994012
9811994013
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9402-9
Published Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 269 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-981-19-9402-9 doi
Call Number PR2965
Dewey Decimal Classification 822.3/3
Summary With joy and grace to accompany the readers to have the translocal tour to visit about thirty-seven works, this monograph applies the academic critical theories of Performance Studies, Film Studies, Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, and Visual Culture, to interpreting the special selection works. The focus and common theme are on race, body, and class. With the background of COVID-19 since 2019 up to the present, the book offers the readers with the remarkable insight of human beings' accumulated wisdom and experiences in surviving with the dreadful diseases like the plagues in Shakespeare's time. After the supreme reading, may the global readers in the world acquire the knowledge and power to live in sustainability with education and entertainment of films, performances, and online streaming Netflix TV dramas. Iris H. Tuan is a Professor at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. Tuan received her Ph.D. in Theater from UCLA. Tuan was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at Harvard University. Her excellent and prolific publications include hundreds of papers and ten books, such as Pop with Gods, Shakespeare, and AI: Popular Film, (Musical) Theatre, and TV Drama (2020), Translocal Performance in Asian Theatre and Film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and co-edited Transnational Performance, Identity and Mobility in Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 7, 2023).
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Chapter 1 Introduction
Part I Asian American Theatre and Asian Performances
Chapter 2 Race and Identity in David Henry Hwang's Plays and Musicals
Chapter 3 River/Cloud: Fill in the Blank via Memory, Imagination, and Meta-theatre
Chapter 4 Theatre Ecology, Nature, and Politics in Shakespeare’s Plays and Hold On, Love!
Part II Shakespeare
Chapter 5 Food/Drink Consumption, Emotions, and Obsessions in Shakespeare's Plays and Art
Chapter 6 Women and the 'Feminine' by Quoting Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Image Change in Screen
Chapter 7 During COVID-19 Pandemics, Reflect on Plagues in Shakespeare's Plays
Chapter 8 Post-modern Bizarre & Post-human Zombie: Warm Bodies and Titus
Chapter 9 Images, Travelling, and Visual Culture in Shakespeare's Plays: Through and Beyond Repetition
Part III Netflix TV Dramas
Chapter 10 Immaterial Representations in Altered Carbon: Sex, Body, and Memories
Chapter 11 (In)Hospitality and Visual Culture in Downton Abbey
Chapter 12 Conclusion.

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