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Beyond Shakespeare : Film Studies, Performance Studies, and Netflix
Beyond Shakespeare : Film Studies, Performance Studies, and Netflix
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Author(s): Tuan, Iris H.
ISBN No.: 9789811994043
Pages: xxvii, 269
Year: 202407
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 165.59
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

With joy and grace to accompany the readers to have the translocal tour to visit about thirty-seven works, this monograph applies the academic critical theories of Performance Studies, Film Studies, Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, and Visual Culture, to interpreting the special selection works. The focus and common theme are on race, body, and class. With the background of COVID-19 since 2019 up to the present, the book offers the readers with the remarkable insight of human beings' accumulated wisdom and experiences in surviving with the dreadful diseases like the plagues in Shakespeare's time. After the supreme reading, may the global readers in the world acquire the knowledge and power to live in sustainability with education and entertainment of films, performances, and online streaming Netflix TV dramas. Iris H. Tuan is a Professor at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. Tuan received her Ph.D.


in Theater from UCLA. Tuan was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at Harvard University. Her excellent and prolific publications include hundreds of papers and ten books, such as Pop with Gods , Shakespeare, and AI: Popular Film , (Musical) Theatre, and TV Drama (2020), Translocal Performance in Asian Theatre and Film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and co-edited T ransnational Performance, Identity and Mobility in Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).


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