The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 21.0199  Thursday, 20 May 2010

From:         Alexander Huang < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >
Date:         Monday, 17 May 2010 00:32:48 -0400
Subject:      Borrowers & Lenders - Latest Issue

Issue 4.2 of _Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation_ has gone live. "Asian Shakespeares on Screen: Two Films in Perspective," edited by Alex Huang, contains 14 multimedia essays on Maqbool and The Banquet, films inspired by Macbeth and Hamlet. 

To view the issue, go to http://www.borrowers.uga.edu <http://www.borrowers.uga.edu/> and click on "Current Issue." The essays are available in PDF and web formats, though only the web version contains film clips. 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Time Lord of Infinite Space: Celebrity Casting, Romanticism, and British Identity in the RSC's "Doctor Who Hamlet"
Andrew James Hartley

"Nisht kayn Desdemona, nisht kayn Dzulieta": Yiddish Adaptations of The Merchant of Venice and the Early Modern Father-Daughter Bond
Farrah Lehman

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"Asian Shakespeares on Screen: Two Films in Perspective," edited by Alex Huang

Introduction
Alexander C.Y. Huang

Extending the Filmic Canon: The Banquet and Maqbool
Mark Thornton Burnett

Shakespeare: It's What's for Dinner
Amy Scott-Douglass

The Banquet as Cinematic Romance
Charles Ross

Spectator Violence and Queenly Desire in The Banquet
Rebecca Chapman

A Thousand Universes: Zhang Ziyi in Feng Xiaogang's The Banquet
Woodrow B. Hood

Martial Arts and Masculine Identity in Feng Xiaogang's The Banquet
Yu Jin Ko

Interiority, Masks, and The Banquet
Yuk Sunny Tien

Woodcocks to Springes: Generic Disjunction in The Banquet
Scott Hollifield

"Mak[ing] . . . Strange / Even to the disposition that I owe": Vishal Bharadwaj's Maqbool
Poonam Trivedi

Dharma and Violence in Mumbai
David Mason

Maqbool and Bollywood Conventions
Amrita Sen

Indigenizing Macbeth: Vishal Bhardwaj's Maqbool
Suddhaseel Sen

What If Lady Macbeth Were Pregnant?: Amativeness, Procreation, and Future Dynasty in Maqbool
William C. Ferleman

From Ethnographic Impulses to Apocalyptic Endings: Bharadwaj's Maqbool and Kurosawa's Throne of Blood in Comparative Context
Blair Orfall

The Banquet: A Glossary
Ya-chen Chen

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