Bollywood Does Shakespeare
Illustrated lecture by Dr. Pravina Cooper, Lecturer, Comparative World Literature, California State University, Long Beach
Chair: Chair: Ms Aruna Vasudev
Shakespeare continues to be the most prolific and translatable screen writer of modern cinema. Dr. Cooper will examine the ideological implications of Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider, Omkara and Maqbool; how and to what ends does Bhardwaj’s work align with the central moral dilemmas at the heart of Shakespeare’s Renaissance texts and to what extent does his work re-write them?
Chair: Chair: Ms Aruna Vasudev
Shakespeare continues to be the most prolific and translatable screen writer of modern cinema. Dr. Cooper will examine the ideological implications of Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider, Omkara and Maqbool; how and to what ends does Bhardwaj’s work align with the central moral dilemmas at the heart of Shakespeare’s Renaissance texts and to what extent does his work re-write them?
Event starts on Monday, 27 July 2015 at 05:30 hrs
Type
Talks
Dates
27 Jul 2015, 05:30 AM
Venue
Bollywood Does Shakespeare
