Contents
Preface
Phantom of the Cinema: Macbeth’s Ghosts in the Flesh
1. Textual sources
2. OrsonWelles,
3. Akira Kurosawa,
4. Roman Polanski,
5. Trevor Nunn,
6. Alexander Abela,
7. Vishal Bhardwaj,
8. Conclusion
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“Instruments of Darkness”: Witches and the Supernatural in Four Versions of Macbeth1
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Witches and Ghosts in Modern Times Lost? How to Negotiate the Supernatural in Modern Adaptations of Macbeth
1. Introduction: A busy decade for Macbeth
2. Teenagemutant witches in a Mad-Max wasteland
3. Angry young sluts in Melbourne underworld
4. Sickening nuns in godless tyranny
5. Conclusion: Foul is definitely fair
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Macbeth’s Witches: Nurses,Waitresses, Feminists, Punk Gore Groupies
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Weird Space in Macbeth on Screen
Weird Space as Natural Space
Natural or Supernatural
Weird Space as Peripheral Space
Weird Space as Inner Space
Weird Space as pervasive
Conclusion
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“Look how our partner’s rapt”: Externalizing Rapture in Orson Welles’s Macbeth (, )
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Symbolic and Thematic Impoverishment in Roman Polanski’s Macbeth
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“Horrible imaginings”: Rupert Goold’s FilmAdaptation, a Macbeth for the Twenty-First Century1
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Shakespeare in Mzansi
1. Entabeni: Macbeth as FilmNoir
2. Death of a Queen and South Africa’s Cultural Pasts
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Claude Barma’s Macbeth (): Shakespeare and the Hybridity of the French “dramatique”
1. Macbeth on television: the book, the small screen and the big screen
1.1. Macbeth as “televised text”
1.2. Between theatre and cinema
2. Macbeth, an intimist tragedy or a political drama?
2.1. PerformingMacbeth “inside”: intimacy and subjectivity
2.2. A political Macbeth?
Credits
Actors:
With the voices of:
Presentation:
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“. . . [M]ethought/ The wood began to move” (..-) or Whatever Happened to Witches and Woods in Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood (), Alexander Abela’s Makibefo () and Mark Brozel’s Macbeth (): Film Style or the Poetics of Displacement
The jo or introduction
The hà or destruction: Witches, wizards. . . and ladies
Witches
Doing the deed: the seen and the unseen
The ghost sequence: fromthe visible to the invisible
The Kyù, or haste
Guilt andmadness
Whatever happened to Birnam
Conclusion. From visual narration to the visionary:
Time-image or showing beyond, the “cinema of a seer”
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Fleance in the Final Scene of Macbeth: The Return of the Repressed
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“A Barren Sceptre” (..): Generation, Generations, and Destiny in Maqbool and Global Adaptations of Macbeth
1. The Prophetic Bind
2. The Power of Prophecy in Global Adaptations of Macbeth
3. “A Fruitless Crown” (..): Fecundity and the Challenge to Destiny
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Home Sweet Home: Visual Representation of Domestic Spaces in Macbeth
Macbeth and Gothic fiction
Gothic fiction and “the Gothic”
Castles (Welles, Polanski, Kurosawa)
Modern Spaces (Wright and Brozel)
Conclusion
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Happily Never After? Women Filmmakers and the Tragedy of Macbeth
Gender and Genre
From Propaganda Film to Period Film
Macbeth as Docu-drama
Macbeth, The Comedy?
Macbeth Meets the Avant-garde
Macbeth as a Coming-of-Age Story
From Toil to Trouble
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“Get a Look at Your Wife’s Beautiful Cones”: Lady Macbeth’s Stone Butch Blues and Rural Second-Wave Feminismin Scotland, PA
Galenic Medicine, Female Masculinity, and Lady Macbeth’s Transgenderism
Scotland, PA, Second-Wave Feminism, and Normative Gender in s rural North America
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“Struts and frets”: Physical Eloquence in Vladimir Vasiliev’s Macbeth
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Appendix: production details
Cast and crew
Act one
Act two
Macbeth in André Barsacq’s Le Rideau rouge (): Mise en Abyme and Acoustic Porousness
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“Is this an umbrella which I see before me?”: Columbo goes to Scotland Yard1
1. Columbo: to be Macbeth
2. Columbo: not to be Macbeth
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Art not without Ambition: Stardom, Selfhood and Laurence Olivier’s unmade Macbeth
The Shakespearean Star Text
Contemporary Star Discourses: The Oliviers and the Macbeth Screenplays
Autobiography and the Macbeth Screenplays
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Filmography
Theatre Productions Cited
Macbeth on Screen: An Annotated Filmo-Bibliography
Abstracts
Notes on the Contributors
