Product Description: Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media contextualizes historical films in an innovative way--not only relating them to the history of cinema, but also to premodern and early modern media. This philological approach to the (pre)history of cinema engages both old media such as scrolls, illuminated manuscripts, the Bayeux Tapestry, and new digital media such as DVDs, HD DVDs, and computers...read more

Product Description: Housed in the Bristol City Art Gallery and Museum, the AJ Smith Collection is one of the finest and most extensive collections of Lund's Bristol and early Worcester Porcelain. It charts the development of the first two viable porcelain factories outside London...read more

Arranged by the play alluded to or adapted, describes nearly four thousand adaptations of works by Shakespeare in such genres as film, popular music, literature, comic books, cartoons, radio, television, and theater.

Product Description: Combining three key essays from the earlier collection with exciting new work from leading contributors, this text offers sixteen fascinating essays. It is quite simply a must-read for any student of Shakespeare, film or cultural studies. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Shakespeare in mass media–particularly film, video, and television–is arguably the fastest growing research agenda in Shakespeare studies. Shakespeare after Mass Media provides both students and scholars with the most comprehensive resource available on the market for studying the extraordinary afterlife of Shakespeare’s plays in a wide range of media...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares is a savvy look at the wide range of adaptations, spin-offs, and citations of Shakespeare's plays in 1990s popular culture. What does it say about our culture when Shakespearean references turn up in television episodes of The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island, films such as In and Out and My Own Private Idaho, and hardcore porn adaptations of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet? Burt reads the reception of these often quite bad replays in relation to contemporary youth culture and the "queering" of Shakespeare...read more

Product Description: Shakespeare, The Movie brings together an impressive line-up of contributors to consider how Shakespeare has been adapted on film, TV, and video, and explores the impact of this popularization on the canonical status of Shakespeare...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of essays, by theorists and scholars representing a wide range of critical orientations, focuses not only on land enclosure as a historical fact, but also on the symbolic containment of sexuality in Elizabethan and Jacobean literature. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Since 1990, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has been laying the groundwork for one of the most creative transitions in its history. Their rationale to provide for common defense against the threat of Soviet expansion has crumbled along with the USSR and NATO faces an uncertain future...read more