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Prospero' s Books and the Wes tern Culture of Books
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| Abstract | Peter Greenaway's Prosperos Books is a film adaptation of The Tempest, the last play William Shakespeare wrote alone. Adopting a unique collage method of digital image processing and featuring John Gi...elgud as Prospero whose monologue dominates its drama, Greenaway's film is not only an imaginative Shakespearean adaptation, but also a homage through the film media to the western culture of books which has built the current Western civilization for hundreds of years. Taking a hint from the original script, Greenaway imagines 24 books were thrown into Prospero's ship when he was banished with his infant daughter from his dukedom. The unique images of these books, whose contents are minutely defined, are inserted into Prospero's drama while Renaissance masterpieces in the National Gallery in London are quoted in the formations of characters and scenes in the film, which offers us a unique intertextual network of meanings concerned about the Western culture of books and encourages the audience to consider its various aspects, constructive as well as destructive.show more |
| Table of Contents | 1 『プロスペロの本』の本 2 二十四冊の書物 3 読む行為、書く行為 結び |
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| Created Date | 2020.04.08 |
| Modified Date | 2023.06.21 |