{"product_id":"uncanny-fidelity-9780817321765","title":"Uncanny Fidelity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDemonstrates how the study of Shakespeare’s afterlife, specifically in film and television, can clarify both the historical context of his drama and its relevance for the current political moment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eUncanny Fidelity \u003c\/i\u003emakes a rich and creative contribution not only to the field of adaptation studies but also to Shakespeare criticism in general, as it deploys its scholarly resources with aplomb and, as befits the book, originality. One of its refreshing features, especially for a work of modern popular culture, is a continual engagement with the materials of the Renaissance—the histories, the social and theatrical conflicts that enlivened and sometimes disturbed the era, and the criticism about the literature of the time—which gives us the impression that, even when reading about films from only five years ago, we are never far from the early modern period.”—Eric S. Mallin author of \u003ci\u003eReading Shakespeare in the Movies: Non-Adaptations \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Their Meaning and Godless Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “'Tell all the truth but tell it slant.' This slantwise tour of uncanny Shakespearean repetitions helps us reevaluate what we long since thought was familiar. From a 'wild' reading of \u003ci\u003eThe Master\u003c\/i\u003e to a Badiou-inflected examination of\u003ci\u003e Deadwood\u003c\/i\u003e, Newlin ponders how we can 'be awake to the possibility of this sort of faithful resuscitation of Shakespeare.'”—Scott Newstok, author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"James Newlin sees our contemporary culture as an uncanny adaptation of Shakespeare’s own documentation of the world. The Bard’s appearances and reappearances— rather like the profanity in the HBO series \u003ci\u003eDeadwood\u003c\/i\u003e— bring to audiences jolts of recognition and reversal of what Shakespeare already knew. We would be wrong to resist Newlin’s claims: for even Jane Austen presciently proclaims: 'Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. ...[O]ne is intimate with him by instinct.' Bearing such intimacy by instinct in mind, Newlin takes up TV and movie gems from \u003ci\u003eBrigsby Bear\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eManchester by the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e, from \u003ci\u003eVice Principals\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eThe Master\u003c\/i\u003e, to uncover, and to offer, a Shakespeare for our times who uncannily already told the story of the moment.\"—Vera J. Camden, co-editor of\u003ci\u003e American Imago and \u003c\/i\u003eAmerican editor for the\u003ci\u003e Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577625448791,"sku":"9780817321765","price":79.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780817321765.jpg?v=1746096004","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/uncanny-fidelity-9780817321765","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}