{"product_id":"shakespeare-in-hollywood-asia-and-alexa-yuang-9781557535290","title":"Shakespeare in Hollywood, Asia, and Cyberspace","description":"Recent decades have witnessed diverse incarnations and bold sequences of Shakespeare on screen and stage. Hollywood films and a century of Asian readings of plays such as \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMacbeth\u003c\/i\u003e are now conjoining in cyberspace, making a world of difference to how we experience Shakespeare. \u003ci\u003eShakespeare in Hollywood, Asia, and Cyberspace\u003c\/i\u003e shows readers how ideas of Asia operate in Shakespeare performances and how Asian and Anglo-European forms of cultural production combine to transcend the mode of inquiry that focuses on fidelity. The result is a new creativity that finds expression in different cultural and virtual locations, including recent films and MMOGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Games). The papers in the volume provide a background for these modern developments, showing the history of how Shakespeare became a signifier against which Asian and Western cultures defined--and continue to define--themselves. Authors in the first part of the collection examine culture and gender in Hollywood Shakespearean film and complement the second part in which the history of Shakespearean readings and stagings in China, Indonesia, Cambodia, Japan, Okinawa, Taiwan, Malaya, Korea, and Hong Kong are discussed. Papers in the third part of the volume analyze the transformation of the idea of Shakespeare in cyberspace, a rapidly expanding world of new rewritings of both Shakespeare and Asia. Together, the three sections of this comparative study demonstrate how Asian cultures and Shakespeare affect each other and how the combination of Asian and Anglo-European modes of representation are determining the future of how we see Shakespeare's plays.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alexa Huang, Charles Ross\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1557535299\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781557535290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Purdue University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2010 pg. 271","brand":"Alexa Huang","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44052911096063,"sku":"9781557535290","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5ed81fb1-1354-40c7-8fce-0cd23891d5f0.jpg?v=1685021337","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shakespeare-in-hollywood-asia-and-alexa-yuang-9781557535290","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}