“By Looking Liking”: Baz Luhrmann’S William Shakespeare’S Romeo+Juliet

• Authors: Nicoleta Cinpoeş
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Twenty years since its release onto the big screen, Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet continues to attract viewers, divide critics and remain unchallenged, in a league of its own, when it comes to film adaptation of Shakespeare’s plays. This article begins with taking stock of reception directions which still dispute the field of film adaptation. Cued by Worthen’s “Performance Paradigm”, my argument positions Luhrmann’s film (his second at the time and the one to propel the Australian director into Hollywood fame) firmly in the cinematic and sees the film narrative not as opposed to the textual and/or spoken one, but as a complex citational practice developed at the level of oral, visual and written discourse.

Keywords

EN

Romeo and Juliet; adaptation; citation; suture; fragmentation; surrogation

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Messages, Sages and Ages
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 7-16

Dates

published

2016-08-01

online

2016-08-04

Contributors

author

Nicoleta Cinpoeş

• Institute of Humanities and Creative Arts University of Worcester Henwick Grove, Worcester, WR2 6AJ, UK

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/msas-2016-0001