Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-13550-5 — 'Hamlet' and World Cinema Mark Thornton Burnett Frontmatter More Information ‘HAMLET’ AND WORLD CINEMA ‘Hamlet’ and World Cinema reveals a rich history of cinematic pro- duction extending around the globe. Making a case for Hamlet as the world’s most frequently filmed text, and using specially commis- sioned interviews with cast, directors and screenwriters, it discusses films from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. The book argues that the play has been taken up by filmmakers worldwide to allegorize the energies, instabilities, traumas and expec- tations that have defined the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In so doing, it rejects the Anglophone focus which has dominated criticism up to now and explores instead the multiple constituencies that have claimed Shakespeare’s most celebrated work as their own. ‘Hamlet’ and World Cinema uncovers a vital part of the adaptation story. This book facilitates a fresh understanding of Shakespeare’s cinematic significance and newly highlights Hamlet’s political and aesthetic instrumentality in a vast range of local and global contexts. mark thornton burnett is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen’s University Belfast and Director of the Sir Kenneth Branagh Archive. He is the author of Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture (1997), Constructing ‘Monsters’ in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture (2002), Filming Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace (2007; 2nd edn 2012) and Shakespeare and World Cinema (Cambridge University Press, 2013). His co-edited publications include Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siècle (2000), Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century (2006) and Filming and Performing Renaissance History (2011). © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-13550-5 — 'Hamlet' and World Cinema Mark Thornton Burnett Frontmatter More Information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-13550-5 — 'Hamlet' and World Cinema Mark Thornton Burnett Frontmatter More Information ‘HAMLET’ AND WORLD CINEMA MARK THORNTON BURNETT Queen’s University Belfast © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-13550-5 — 'Hamlet' and World Cinema Mark Thornton Burnett Frontmatter More Information University Printing House, Cambridge cb28bs,UnitedKingdom One Liberty Plaza, 20th Floor, New York, ny 10006,USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, vic 3207,Australia 314–321, 3rd Floor, Plot 3, Splendor Forum, Jasola District Centre, New Delhi – 110025,India 79 Anson Road, #06–04/06, Singapore 079906 Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. 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Hamlet – Film adaptations. | English drama (Tragedy) – Film adaptations. | Film adaptations – History and criticism. classification: lcc pr2807 .b87 2019 | ddc 822.3/3–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019005970 isbn 978-1-107-13550-5 Hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-13550-5 — 'Hamlet' and World Cinema Mark Thornton Burnett Frontmatter More Information To Henry John Burnett and Louis Thornton Burnett © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-13550-5 — 'Hamlet' and World Cinema Mark Thornton Burnett Frontmatter More Information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-13550-5 — 'Hamlet' and World Cinema Mark Thornton Burnett Frontmatter More Information Contents List of Figures page viii Acknowledgements x A Note on Texts and Titles xvi Introduction 1 1 Hamlet, Cinema and the Histories of Western Europe 23 2 Thematizing Place: Hamlet, Cinema and Africa 59 3 Hamlet and the Moment of Brazilian Cinema 92 4 Pairing the Cinematic Prince: Hamlet, China and Japan 121 5 Hamlet and Indian Cinemas: Regional Paradigms 153 6 Gendering Borders: Hamlet and the Cinemas of Turkey and Iran 188 7 Materializing Hamlet in the Cinemas of Russia, Central and Eastern Europe 219 Filmography 252 Bibliography 256 Index 284 vii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-13550-5 — 'Hamlet' and World Cinema Mark Thornton Burnett Frontmatter More Information Figures 1 Poster for Io, Amleto/I, Hamlet (dir. Georgio page 26 Simonelli, 1952). 2 John/Hamlet (Hardy Krüger) dances with Fee/Ophelia 29 (Ingrid Andree) in Der Rest ist Schweigen/The Rest Is Silence (dir. Helmut Käutner, 1959). 3 Lucie/Ophelia (Juliette Mayniel) in autumnal mood in 34 Ophélia (dir. Claude Chabrol, 1963). 4 Cover sleeve for the record accompanying the release of Ithele 37 Na Ginei Vasilias/He Wanted to Become King (dir. Angelos Theodoropoulos, 1967). 5 Poster for Dans la Poussière de la Soleil/In the Dust of the Sun 41 (dir. Richard Balducci, 1971). 6 Amleto/Hamlet (Carmelo Bene), with suitcase, agitates to 43 escape in Un Amleto di Meno/One Hamlet Less (dir. Carmelo Bene, 1973). 7 Nen/Hamlet (Antonio Fernández Montoya) and Palito/ 48 Horatio (Cheto), to the right, are denizens of Barcelona’s El Raval neighbourhood in El Triunfo/The Triumph (dir. Mireia Ros, 2006). 8 Hamile/Hamlet (Kofi Middleton-Mends) is lensed against 68 patterned buildings in Hamile: The Tongo ‘Hamlet’ (dir. Terry Bishop, 1965). 9 Habiba/Ophelia (Mary Yirenkyi), flanked by the Queen/ 71 Gertrude (Frances Sey), descends into madness in the savannah in Hamile: The Tongo ‘Hamlet’ (dir. Terry Bishop, 1965). 10 Omeleto/Hamlet (David Cardoso), newly returned to the 97 sertão,inA Herança/The Inheritance (dir. Ozualdo Candeias, 1971). 11 A circus setting for the travelling players in A Herança/The 105 Inheritance (dir. Ozualdo Candeias, 1971). viii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-13550-5 — 'Hamlet' and World Cinema Mark Thornton Burnett Frontmatter More Information List of Figures ix 12 Poster for Castle of Flames (dir. Katô Tai, 1960). 127 13 Nishi/Hamlet (Toshirô Mifune) negotiates a war-ravaged 132 Tokyo in The Bad Sleep Well (dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1960). 14 Empress Wan/Gertrude (Zhang Ziyi) plots her rise to power 139 in The Banquet (dir. Xiaogang Feng, 2006). 15 Queen Nanm/Gertrude (Zomskyid) and King Kulo-ngam/ 142 Claudius (Dobrgyal) share an intimate moment in Prince of the Himalayas (dir. Sherwood Hu, 2006). 16 Kishore Sahu as the melancholy prince in Hamlet (dir. Kishore 156 Sahu, 1954). 17 Rudran/Hamlet (Indrajith) strikes a yogic pose in Karmayogi 168 (dir. V. K. Prakash, 2012). 18 A tree-lined avenue serves as a closet scene in Haider (dir. 173 Vishal Bhardwaj, 2014). 19 Kalyan/Claudius (Saswata Chatterjee) and Gayatri/Gertrude 177 (Gargi Roy Chowdhury) express discomfort in Hemanta (dir. Anjan Dutt, 2016). 20 Father ‘Baba’ (Anoshirvan Arjomand) exerts his influence in 197 Tardid/Doubt (dir. Varuzh Karim-Masihi, 2009). 21 Mahtab/Ophelia (Taraneh Alidoosti) refuses to capitulate to 207 gendered expectations in Tardid/Doubt (dir. Varuzh Karim-Masihi, 2009). 22 Carved expressions of ancestral history dominate in Gamlet 224 (dir. Grigori Kozintsev, 1964). 23 Valya/Hamlet (Yuri Chursin) typifies domestic angst in 230 Playing the Victim (dir. Kirill Serebrennikov, 2006). 24 Elsinore as Slovakian shantytown in Cigán/Gypsy (dir. Martin 238 Šulík, 2011). 25 Julka/Ophelia (Martina Kotlarova) gathers berries in Cigán/ 244 Gypsy (dir. Martin Šulík, 2011). © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-13550-5 — 'Hamlet' and World Cinema Mark Thornton Burnett Frontmatter More Information Acknowledgements I owe primary thanks to the institutions that have funded this research. The Folger Shakespeare Library awarded me a short-term fellowship dur- ing which this project was developed, and Queen’s University Belfast granted me a semester of study leave which enabled its completion. Queen’s University has been equally enabling in the form of grants from the Publications Fund and the Research and