Wherefore Feminist Cinema? Reimagining Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in Deepa Mehta's Water (2024-04-18)

Lehmann, Courtney
University of Minnesota Duluth. Department of English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies
2024
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Wherefore Feminist Cinema? Reimagining Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in Deepa Mehta's Water (2024-04-18)

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Film directors from across the world have long adapted Shakespeare's plays as a way of providing political and social commentary. Dr. Lehmann's talk focuses on Indian director Deepa Mehta, who weaponizes Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to highlight the plight of widows in pre-Independence and modern-day India in Water (2006). Water is a poignant illustration of Shakespeare's legacy of cultural subversion and political engagement across time, place, and media.

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Thursday, 18 April at 5:00 pm; Kathryn A. Martin Library Rotunda. Featuring Dr. Courtney Lehmann. Dr. Lehmann is the Tully Knoles Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English at the University of the Pacific.

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Sponsored by the Department of English, Linguistics, & Writing Studies with the Klaus P. Jankofsky Fund for Medieval & Renaissance Studies

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Lehmann, Courtney; University of Minnesota Duluth. Department of English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies. (2024). Wherefore Feminist Cinema? Reimagining Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in Deepa Mehta's Water (2024-04-18). Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/262409.

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