Throughout his career, Sam Shepard demonstrated a preoccupation with national identity, myths and symbols. The Bodyguard was a film adaptation of the Renaissance dramatists Middleton and Rowley's play Changeling. The screen adaptation is presented here as a counterhegemonic appropriation of the canonical text through an assertion of Shepard's American identity and a vindication of his popular roots. The adaptation critically demonstrates the tension Shepard experiences between national idea(l)s and a multicultural reality ...
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Throughout his career, Sam Shepard demonstrated a preoccupation with national identity, myths and symbols. The Bodyguard was a film adaptation of the Renaissance dramatists Middleton and Rowley's play Changeling. The screen adaptation is presented here as a counterhegemonic appropriation of the canonical text through an assertion of Shepard's American identity and a vindication of his popular roots. The adaptation critically demonstrates the tension Shepard experiences between national idea(l)s and a multicultural reality in the plot, themes and imagery of the early modern play, and also exemplifies and thematizes the postmodern fusion of high and low culture.
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Add this copy of From Middleton and Rowley's Changeling to Sam Shepard's to cart. $109.79, good condition, Sold by Literary Cat Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Machynlleth, Powys, WALES, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1997 by Edwin Mellen Press.
