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In addition to interrogating the ideological objectives of these works, this book explores their contexts within the realms of film studies, Shakespeare performance, contemporary history, critical theory, and popular culture. Melissa Croteau and Carolyn Jess-Cooke eds.
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This collection of essays examines the ways in which recent Shakespeare films portray anxieties a Essays chart the apocalyptic mise-en-scenes, disorienting imagery, and topsy-turvy plots of these films, using apocalypse as a theoretical and thematic lens. It also is a film that may not have been made if it were not for the unusual and precarious situation of Occupied France during World War II.
As Ben McCann avers, during the Occupation, "Realism — poetic, social, magical or otherwise — was out". Therefore, Les Enfants du paradis, which explores the ineluctable convergence of art and life, is set in Paris in the s on the Boulevard du Temple, which, by , the year the film opens, had come to be known as the Boulevard du Crime [Crime Street], where all walks of life thronged to find diverse entertainments, from carnival acts to "respectable " theatre.
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Perhaps more brilliantly than any other film in the history of French cinema, Les enfants du paradis explores the ever permeable and mercurial boundaries between theatrical art and life. As noted by Russell Ganim and John C. Tibbetts, Les enfants makes significant use of direct and indirect references to Othello.
Indeed, the film shares many of its central themes with the play: Othello is a crucial touchstone in the film. Access online at http: Click here to read more and buy your copy! It is what it is, and I hold no malice for anyone whose political viewpoints differ from mine.
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