Ailsa Grant Ferguson: 3 books
Shakespeare, Cinema, Counter-Culture
Appropriation and Inversion
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Addressing for the first time Shakespeare’s place in counter-cultural cinema, this book examines and theorizes counter-hegemonic, postmodern, and post-punk Shakespeare in late 20th and early 21st century film. Drawing on a diverse range of case studies, Grant Ferguson presents an interdisciplinary...
The Shakespeare Hut
A Story of Memory, Performance and Identity, 1916-1923
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
This book tells the forgotten story of the Shakespeare Hut, a vast, mock-Tudor building for New Zealand Anzac soldiers visiting London on leave from the front lines. Constructed in Bloomsbury in 1916, the Hut was to be the only built memorial to mark Shakespeare's Tercentenary in the midst of war....
Antipodal Shakespeare
Remembering and Forgetting in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, 1916 - 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Despite a recent surge of critical interest in the Shakespeare Tercentenary, a great deal has been forgotten about this key moment in the history of the place of Shakespeare in national and global culture – much more than has been remembered. This book offers new archival discoveries about, and...