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Article: Shakespeare on Film: Contemporary Critical Essays. (Book Reviews).
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- Journal of Popular Film & Television
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- March 22, 2002
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SHAKESPEARE ON FILM: CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL ESSAYS
Ed. Robert Shaughnessy. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. 206 PP. $49.95 cloth. $18.95 paper.
Shakespeare on Film is a collection of ten essays that seeks to explore how Shakespeare's plays are portrayed on film, utilizing the theoretical perspectives of Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis, and post-structuralism to illuminate "the rich interchange between critical theory and critical practice." The book's fundamentally deconstructivist-ideological basis makes it of greater value to cultural materialist readers than to theater or cinema audiences, whose primary concern seems to be more humanist and aesthetic.