Contents

Title Page                                                                                                                    i

Table of Contents                                                                                                       ii

Acknowledgments & Dedication                                                                                iii

Preface:          An Introduction to Postmodern Cinema                                            v

Introduction      Will-in-Fidelity: Exploring Postmodern Shakespearian Cinema            1

Chapter 1.        Violence at it’s Best: Appropriating Titus Andronicus                       4

Julie Taymor’s Titus (1999)

Chapter 2.        Henry’s Midnight in Idaho: Rediscovering Henry IV                        17

Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho

Supplementary film: Chimes at Midnight

Chapter 3.        Timeless Villainy: Rehistoricizing Richard III                                     29

Richard Loncrain’s Richard III (1995)

            Supplementary film: Al Pacino’s Looking for Richard

Chapter 4.        Alternate Reality: Recontextualizing Romeo & Juliet                         41

Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996)        

Supplementary film: Robert Wise’s West Side Story (1961)

Chapter 5.        Remembering Tomorrow: Hamlet in the Digital World                      50

Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet (2000)

Afterward:        Exposing Fidelity, Exploring Continuity                                           85

Notes                                                                                                                           94

Select Bibliography                                                                                                       107

Select Filmography                                                                                                       110

Index                                                                                                                            111