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William Shakespeare's Hamlet
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A stylish reworking of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, set in the glittering hi-tech universe of contemporary New York as discussed by the authors, hinges upon the feud between the moody Prince (Ethan Hawke) and his villainous stepfather Claudius.Abstract:
A stylish reworking of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, set in the glittering hi-tech universe of contemporary New York. It hinges upon the feud between the moody Prince (Ethan Hawke) and his villainous stepfather Claudius (Kyle MacLachlan).read more
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"To Hear and See the Matter": Communicating Technology in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet (2000)
TL;DR: This article argued that Almereyda's Hamlet is a distinctively post-modernist cinematic statement that charts the ways in which the act of filmmaking allows a release from the pressures of global capitalism at the same moment as it creates a space for the coherent subjectivity.