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Shakespeare and the cinema of excess
Includes bibliographical references.
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| author | Van Heerden, Jacques |
| author2 | Young, Sandra |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11950 Shakespeare and the cinema of excess Van Heerden, Jacques Young, Sandra English Language and Literature Includes bibliographical references. This dissertation examines the notion of excess in film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays. It takes its critical approach from the work of Georges Bataille, who used "eroticism" to describe a confrontation with excess that destabilises the individual’s sense of identity. Bataille suggests that art can allow audiences to experience a measure of eroticism by presenting subjects that transgress established taboos and by undermining the formal conventions that allow the audience to interpret the text. This dissertation examines these ideas through an analysis of Julie Taymor's Titus and Roman Polanski’s Macbeth from the perspective of Bataille’s writing on transgression, taboos, and excess. By doing a comparative reading of each play and film, I will examine the meaning of excess in these plays and how this has translated to screen... 2015-01-10T13:28:37Z 2015-01-10T13:28:37Z 2012 Master Thesis Masters MPhil http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11950 eng application/pdf Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
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| title | Shakespeare and the cinema of excess |
| title_full | Shakespeare and the cinema of excess |
| title_fullStr | Shakespeare and the cinema of excess |
| title_full_unstemmed | Shakespeare and the cinema of excess |
| title_short | Shakespeare and the cinema of excess |
| title_sort | shakespeare and the cinema of excess |
| topic | English Language and Literature |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11950 |
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