Landscape and FilmMartin Lefebvre Taylor & Francis, 2006 - 361 pages This volume is a collection of all-new original essays covering everything from feminist to postcolonial readings of the play as well as source queries and analyses of historical performances of the play. The Merchant of Venice is a collection of seventeen new essays that explore the concepts of anti-Semitism, the work of Christopher Marlowe, the politics of commerce and making the play palatable to a modern audience. The characters, Portia and Shylock, are examined in fascinating detail. With in-depth analyses of the text, the play in performance and individual characters, this book promises to be the essential resource on the play for all Shakespeare enthusiasts. |
Contents
illustrations | 3 |
acknowledgments | 5 |
introduction | 7 |
moses and aaron | |
chapter two between setting and landscape in the cinema | |
notes on landscapes in dw griffith 19081912 | |
sublime landscapes in the american cinema | |
the new desert in arab independent cinema | |
chapter eight the presence and absence of landscape in silent east asian films | |
the genesis of early english screenscapes | |
trips around the world as early film topic 18961914 | |
peter greenways landscapes by numbers | |
on anthony mann | |
desert iconographies in michelangelo antonionis zabriskie point | |
contributors | |
landscape in the films of david rimmer | |
gallipoli and other mediterranean landscapes in amateur films c19281960 | |
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