S. Simkin

Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence

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Produktbeschreibung

This study considers parallel issues in revenge tragedies of the early seventeenth-century and violent cinema of the last thirty years. It offers a series of provocative explorations of death, revenge and justice, and gender and violence. What happens when we connect The White Devil with Basic Instinct ? The Changeling or Titus Andronicus with Straw Dogs ? Doctor Faustus with Se7en ? Taxi Driver with The Spanish Tragedy ? Appealing to those with an interest in either drama or film, written in an engaging style, the book also reconsiders the high /popular culture divide, and reflects on the enduring significance of the revenge motif in Western culture over the past four hundred years, particularly in the post 9/11 context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-52239-2
• 1st ed. 2006
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 351g
• ISBN-13: 9781349522392
• ISBN-10: 1349522392
• Artikelnr.: 45584424

Autorenporträt

STEVIE SIMKIN is Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Winchester, UK. His previous publications include A Preface to Marlowe, Marlowe: The Stage Plays and Revenge Tragedy: A New Casebook. He has particular interests in politicized approaches to staging the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and in Hollywood film.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Worlds Apart PART I: JUSTICE AND REVENGE Introduction: 'Don't Get Mad, Get Even' Revenge in its Social Contexts: Early Modern Tragedy Revenge in its Social Contexts: Late Twentieth Century Cinema 'When the bad bleed, then is the tragedy good': Politics, Morality and Revenge 'Taint not thy mind': the Morality of Revenge PART II: GENDER AND VIOLENCE Women Dipped in Blood: Gender, Violence and Control in Early Modern Tragedy A Thin Red Line: Gender, Violence and Contemporary Cinema Sex and Violence: The Changeling (1622) and Straw Dogs (1971) White Devils and Basic Instincts PART III: DEATH AND THE DAMAGED BODY Introduction: Vile Bodies Spectacles of Death Punishment and Redemption Conclusion: Gendered Revenge List of Play and Film Texts Notes and References Bibliography Index