Will he or won’t he? Shakespeare’s stage presence in the media age
Part of : Γράμμα : περιοδικό θεωρίας και κριτικής ; Vol.17, No.1, 2009, pages 249-264
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Mediascape alterities
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Andy Warhol better than anyone understood "that to be a star is to be a blank screen" for the projection of someone else's short-lived dreams. The Wooster Group's Hamlet (2006) bears out this insight by offering a parallel for his innumerable silkscreens of Elizabeth Taylor in its reenactment of the digitally treated filmic record of Richard Burton’s Hamlet. As a result, the intermediai production prolongs Shakespeare’s mourning exercise and dramatization of ever deferred identities into a meditation on the ghostliness of fame and the theater.
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The text strikes back: the dynamics of performativity., Περιέχει βιβλιογραφία
