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Title: Unspeakable Shaxxxspeares: Queer Theory and American Kiddie Culture by Richard Burt ISBN: 0-312-22685-3 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: December, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (33 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Witty and moving analysis of Shakespeare's fate in media
Comment: One doesn't usually expect to find oneself laughing when reading a book of criticism written by an academic, much less a book on Shakespeare. But Burt's book is frequently just that, funny to the point of making me laugh out loud. Burt has a refreshingly off-beat sense of humor, and the materials he has discovered--such as an adult movie version of Hamlet--aer themselves often hilarious as well, though not always intentionally so. But far from being just a laugh riot, the book is also a serious, critically sophisticated analysis of Shakespeare's fate incontemporary mass media, where much of hte lnagugae is cut or confined to well-known quotations. Burt's final chapter on films about teaching Shakespeare is quite moving, and Burt has the courage to raise difficult questions without pretending he is able to answer them. He is right to think that the questions are more important than the answers. Burt is to be congratulated for writing his book in a clear and engaging prose style without sacrificing the complexity of his thought.
Rating: 5
Summary: Pioneering book
Comment: In his wonderful and fascinating book Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares, Richard Burt, the leading scholar of Shakespeare and film studies, pioneers research into the manifold ways Shakespeare enters into American popular culture. Concentrating mostly on film but attending as well to television sit-coms, Burt offers penetrating insight into everything from mainstream adaptations of Shakespeare to "low" spin-offs in which Shakespeare's language almost entirely disappears. Burt explores both what film and mass media have done to Shakespeare and also what Shakespeare enables our culture to do trhough film and other electronic media. Readers intersted in this book will be happy to know that Burt has since edited a related collection entitled Shakespeare After Mass Media and has co-edited Shakespeare, the Movie II.
Rating: 1
Summary: Merely Telling, Not Showing
Comment: In the least scathing word I can think of, Richard Burt is inimitable. On to the bash. Come on, someone has to stand up to the plate and do it! He represents and produces the academic filth and corruption that have come to characterize this modern world. He is a bottomless black hole who uses his pretentious charm and intelligence (and devilish good looks) as forces to draw in impressionable young people to his vile inner recesses. His outer core is his classroom teaching world, where he pretends to know more than he does, and when he knows he's wrong, he doesn't dare admit it for fear of losing his pathetic reputation. And his innermost core is represented by a website entitled Naughtyprofessor.com. He's like one of those little sucker fish attached to the underbellies of larger fish, trying in vain to extract some salient substance - but he fails every time. Give it up, Burt.
That aside, let's talk about the book. Although there is some legitimate research behind this book of his, where is the scholarship? Not once in this disaster of a book does he make fully accessible any of the concepts he presumes to know about. References to film and literature are well organized, but his writing doesn't show anything, any grander synthesis of ideas - it is merely an exercise is being pretentious and self-serving. Queer thoery is a fascinating subject, but Burt's frequent dry humor is very demeaning to it and waters it down a great deal. Stick to teaching, Professor Burt (as scary as that sounds to me), forget writing.
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Title: Making Things Perfectly Queer: Interpreting Mass Culture by Alexander Doty ISBN: 0816622450 Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: August, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader by Robert J. Corber, Stephen Valocchi ISBN: 0631229175 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Studying Contemporary American Films: A Guide to Movie Analysis by Thomas Elsaesser, Warren Buckland ISBN: 0340762063 Publisher: Edward Arnold Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: A Genealogy of Queer Theory (American Subjects Series) by William B. Turner ISBN: 1566397871 Publisher: Temple Univ Press Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Reinventing Film Studies by Christine Gledhill, Linda Williams ISBN: 0340677236 Publisher: Edward Arnold Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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