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Manchester University Press Serial Shakespeare: An Infinite Variety of Appropriations in American Tv Drama
Shakespeare is everywhere in contemporary media culture. This book explores the reasons for this dissemination and reassemblage. Ranging widely over American TV drama, it discusses the use of citations in Westworld and The Wire, demonstrating how they tap into but also transform Shakespeare’s preferred themes and concerns. It then examines the presentation of female presidents in shows such as Commander in Chief and House of Cards, revealing how they are modelled on figures of female sovereignty from his plays. Finally, it analyses the specifically Shakespearean dramaturgy of Deadwood and The Americans. Ultimately, the book brings into focus the way serial TV drama appropriates Shakespeare in order to give voice to the unfinished business of the American cultural imaginary.
£76.50
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Dominic Buttner: Dreamscapes
Dreamscapes is a long-term artistic project of Swiss photographer Dominic Buttner, in which he is recording actual performances at night, both in natural and built environments. Bearing a torch, he slowly walks away from his large format view camera. Time exposure captures the scenery illuminated by the moving light, and sometimes his footprints, while the artist's figure is eradicated again from the image. At the same time familiar and strange, the fascinating pictures of enchanted or haunted landscapes tell us what an eerie place our everyday surroundings can be, depending on the light in which we see it. This first monographic book on Dominic Buttner's art features some one-hundred of his Dreamscapes alongside essays by literary scholar and critic Elisabeth Bronfen and by publicist and art critic Nadine Olonetzky. Text in English and German. AUTHORS: Dominic Buttner is a Zurich-based photographic artist. Elisabeth Bronfen is professor of English and American studies at the University of Zurich and a Global Distinguished Professor at New York University. Nadine Olonetzky is a freelance cultural publicist and an editor with Scheidegger and Spiess. SELLING POINTS: . Features a unique photographic-artistic project . First monographic book on Domini Buttner's work 100 colour, 5 b/w illustrations
£45.00