Shakespeare and YouTube : new media forms of the bard

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Label

Shakespeare and YouTube : new media forms of the bard

Title remainder

new media forms of the bard

Statement of responsibility

Stephen O'Neill

Creator

• O'Neill, Stephen, 1973-

Author

• O'Neill, Stephen, 1973-

Subject

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Adaptations -- History and criticism
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Influence
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Study and teaching | Technological innovations
• User-generated content
• YouTube
• YouTube (Electronic resource)
• LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture

Genre

• Adaptations

Language

eng

Summary

• "The video-sharing platform YouTube signals exciting opportunities and challenges for Shakespeare studies. As patron, distributor and archive, YouTube occasions new forms of user-generated Shakespeares, yet a reduced Bard too, subject to the distractions of the contemporary networked mediascape. This book identifies the genres of YouTube Shakespeare, interpreting them through theories of remediation and media convergence and as indices of Shakespeare's shifting cultural meanings. Exploring the intersection of YouTube's participatory culture - its invitation to 'Broadcast Yourself' - with its corporate logic, the book argues that YouTube Shakespeare is a site of productive tension between new forms of self-expression and the homogenizing effects of mass culture. Stephen O'Neill unfolds the range of YouTube's Bardic productions to elaborate on their potential as teaching and learning resources. The book importantly argues for a critical media literacy, one that attends to identity constructions and to the politics of race and gender as they emerge through Shakespeare's new media forms. Shakespeare and YouTube will be of interest to students and scholars of Shakespearean drama, poetry and adaptations, as well as to new media studies"--
• "Shakespeare and YouTube explores the forms of Shakespeare content on YouTube, assesses its implications and argues that the site offers an exciting new frontier for popular culture Shakespeare"--

Member of

• Arden Shakespeare

Assigning source

• Provided by publisher
• Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

822.3/3

Index

index present

LC call number

PR2880.A1

LC item number

O66 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

The Arden Shakespeare