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- Title: Ishakespeare: Digital Art/Games, Intermediality, And the Future of Shakespearean Film (Forum: After Shakespeare on Film)
- Author : Shakespeare Studies
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 204 KB
Description
IN THE FALL OF 1996. I was lucky enough to be in New York City when Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet opened in all its 70 mm glory at the Paris Theatre. During the summer of 2009, I watched the same film on the two-inch screen of an iPod. Although this variation of screen size is admittedly extreme, these two experiences underscore key features in twenty-first-century digitized performance: multiple screens, multiple technologies, and proliferating mechanisms of audience control. Shakespearean film faces a digital world. The year after Branagh's Hamlet was released, Janet H. Murray analyzed digital narrative and predicted "a continued loosening of the traditional boundaries between games and stories, between films and rides, between broadcast media (like television and radio) and archival media (like books and videotape), between narrative forms (like books) and dramatic forms (like theater or film), and even between the audience and the author." (1) However, Murray could not have anticipated how many different kinds of screens would become sites for twenty-first-century literary and cinematic boundary-loosening. Beyond television and movie theaters, our computer screens now host streaming video of Shakespearean performances, including Peter Donaldson's Shakespeare Performance in Asia Web site (http://web.mit.edu/shakespeare/asia/) and Ian McKellan's King Lear, which currently airs on demand on the PBS Web site (http://video.pbs.org/video/1075274407/program/9793 59658). (2) Several Shakespearean films are now available through digital pay-per-view from iTunes. In addition, Shakespeare's texts appear on WebTV, our computer screens, and Amazon's Kindle screens as e-books.
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