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11. Dirty Rats, Dead for a Ducat: Shakespearean Echoes (and an Accident) in Some Films of James Cagney

verfasst von : Scott Hollifield

Erschienen in: Shakespeare / Not Shakespeare

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This essay discovers Shakespearean “commonplaces,” “echoes,” and “accidents” in the gangster and social-realist genre films of golden-age Hollywood (Scarface, The Roaring Twenties, White Heat, Taxi!), which, in spite of their non-Shakespearean natures, provide cinematic intertexts that occasionally resonate with a “Shakespearean presence.” Uncannily prominent in the filmography of James Cagney, the most compelling manifestions of these phenomena coincide with representations of death, as dealt by or visited upon Cagney’s indelible characters. Through juxtapositions of cinematic actualities and Shakespearean textual parallels, this essay illuminates how a work that is not essentially Shakespeare becomes Shakespearean in the act of becoming itself.

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Titel: Dirty Rats, Dead for a Ducat: Shakespearean Echoes (and an Accident) in Some Films of James Cagney
verfasst von: Scott Hollifield
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Shakespeare / Not Shakespeare
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-63299-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-63300-8

Copyright-Jahr: 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63300-8_11