INTERMEDIAL HAMLET: CROSSING THE BORDERS OF THEATER, TELEVISION AND CINEMA IN IRAN AND ENGLAND
INTERMEDIAL HAMLET: CROSSING THE BORDERS OF THEATER, TELEVISION AND CINEMA IN IRAN AND ENGLAND

Summary/Abstract: The new millennium started with a boom in Shakespearean adaptations and interpretation in Asian cinema. During 2008-2014 with political and social upheavals, Hamlet became increasingly popular in Iran as well as in England so that even a film-made-for-television was also recorded for BBC and two prize- winning Iranian adaptations stood out among many films and plays of Fajr Festival. The analysis of interrelationships between these texts reveals a special spatio-temporal context in which Shakespeare‘s verbal hypotext is in interplay with modernism through crossing borders of media such as Arash Dadgar‘s theatrical text, Gregory Doran‘s televisual text and Varuzh Karim-Masihi‘s cinematic text. When ontologically separate art forms interact, truth is decoded through spectator‘s gaze and interpretation. In this article, the researchers try to analyze how intermedial transactions between media, the mediated, and the audience are at work to challenge Hamlet in a modern era and produce new cultural consciousness in the space in-between.

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