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[email protected]. Re-Drowning Ophelia by Joanne E. Gates, page 1 Joanne E. Gates English Department Jacksonville State University Jacksonville, AL 36265 Atlantic Beach PCAS Popular/ American Culture of the South Conference, October 4-6, 2001 at the Sea Turtle Inn Re-Drowning Ophelia: The Representation of Female Disintegration in Recent Films of Hamlet Joanne E. Gates, Jacksonville State University [Notes: Text references are to the second edition of The Riverside Shakespeare. Edited by G. Blakemore Evans and J. R. R. Tobin, Houghton Mifflin, 1997. Other textual and film references are listed at the end. This paper was generated long before the "Me Too" movement and other sensibilities to the manner in which sexual humiliation affect spectator reception.