Vorwort
From canonical movies to web series, this volume illuminates myriad forms of Romeo and Juliet on screen around the world.

Autorentext
Victoria Bladen is Sessional Lecturer and Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Queensland, Australia. She has published six Shakespearean text guides in the Insight Publications series, most recently The Merchant of Venice (2020) and Much Ado About Nothing (2019). She co-edited Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear (CUP 2019), Shakespeare and the Supernatural (2020), Supernatural and Secular Power in Early Modern England (2015) and Shakespeare on Screen: Macbeth (2013). Victoria is on the editorial board for the Shakespeare on Screen in Francophonia Database (shakscreen.org). Sarah Hatchuel is Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, and former president of the Société Française Shakespeare. She has written extensively on adaptations of Shakespeare's plays (Shakespeare and the Cleopatra/Caesar Intertext: Sequel, Conflation, Remake, 2011; Shakespeare, from Stage to Screen, Cambridge University Press, 2004; A Companion to the Shakespearean Films of Kenneth Branagh, 2000) and on TV series (Lost: Fiction vitale, 2013; Rêves et series américaines: la fabrique d'autres mondes, 2015; The Leftovers: le troisième côté du miroir, 2019).Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin is Professor in Shakespeare studies at the University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 and director of the 'Institut de Recherche sur la Renaissance, l'âge Classique et les Lumières' (IRCL, UMR 5186 CNRS). She is co-editor-in-chief of the international journal Cahiers Élisabéthains and co-director (with Patricia Dorval) of the Shakespeare on Screen in Francophonia Database (shakscreen.org). She has published The Unruly Tongue in Early Modern England, Three Treatises (2012) and is the author of Shakespeare's Insults: A Pragmatic Dictionary (2016).

Zusammenfassung
From canonical movies to web series, this volume provides fresh insights into the myriad forms of Romeo and Juliet on screen around the world. Ranging far beyond the Anglo-American sphere, the international cast of contributors explore translations, adaptations, free re-tellings and appropriations from India, France, Italy and Japan and demonstrate the constant evolution of technologies in the production, reception and dissemination of 'Shakespeare on screen'. The volume is complemented by helpful online essays and an extended online film-bibliography which guides readers through the often overwhelming range of filmic resources now available, providing valuable resources for research and pedagogy.

Inhalt

1. Introduction - from canon to queer: Romeo and Juliet on screen Victoria Bladen, Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin; Part I. Revisiting the Canon: 2. The Italian job: Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet and the 1960s Samuel Crowl; 3. The anguish of youth in film adaptations of Romeo and Juliet Delilah Bermudez Brataas; 4. Aquatic and celestial space in Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996) Victoria Bladen; 5. Coming to grips with Shakespeare's tragedy in a film musical: Reassessing Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins's West Side Story (1961) Pascale Drouet; Part II. Extending Genre: 6. Romeo and Juliet and the Western Douglas M. Lanier; 7. Pixarfication, comedy and earning the happy ending in Gnomeo & Juliet Benjamin Broadribb; 8. Decentering the hypotext with denim and zombies: Jonathan Levine's Warm Bodies (2009) and David Lachapelle's Romeo & Juliet (2005) Magdalena Cie lak; 9. Guns, rasa and roses: Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Ram-Leela (2013), a 'Desi' Romeo and Juliet Melissa Croteau; 10. Indian Romeo and Juliets and their uncommonly tragic endings Koel Chatterjee; Part III. Serial and Queer Romeo and Juliets: 11. Romeo and Juliet, again and again: Star-crossed lovers adapted to serial television Kinga Földváry; 12. Romeo and Juliet in Japanese anime Candy Candy: The balcony scene between tradition and subversion Sarah Hatchuel and Ronan Ludot-Vlasak; 13. The (Un)Queering of Romeo and Juliet on film Anthony Guy Patricia; 14. Romeo and Juliet and queer temporality in three twenty-first-century streaming web-series Sujata Iyengar; 15. Reviving Juliet and surviving Romeo in Shakespeare web-series Jennifer Flaherty; 16. Romeo and Juliet on screen: Select film bibliography José Ramón Díaz Fernández.