Overview
This study considers parallel issues in revenge tragedies of the early seventeenth-century and violent cinema of the last thirty years. It offers a series of provocative explorations of death, revenge and justice, and gender and violence. What happens when we connect The White Devil with Basic Instinct ? The Changeling or Titus Andronicus with Straw Dogs ? Doctor Faustus with Se7en ? Taxi Driver with The Spanish Tragedy ? Appealing to those with an interest in either drama or film, written in an engaging style, the book also reconsiders the high /popular culture divide, and reflects on the enduring significance of the revenge motif in Western culture over the past four hundred years, particularly in the post 9/11 context.
- | Author: S. Simkin
- | Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- | Publication Date: Dec 15, 2005
- | Number of Pages: 264 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 1403944113
- | ISBN-13: 9781403944115
