Shakespearean Drama, Disability, and the Filmic Stare

This volume synthesizes Laura Mulvey's male gaze and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson's stare into a new critical lens, the filmic stare, in order to understand and analyze the visual construction of disability in adaptations of Shakespearean drama.

Grace McCarthy earned her PhD in English and Film Studies from Wilfrid Laurier University in 2020. Her research focuses on disability studies and Shakespeare studies. She has previously published in Early Modern Literary Studies on adaptation and Shakespeare. Grace was the recipient of a SSHRC and an OGS award in addition to the Award for Outstanding Work at the Graduate Level.

List of Figures Introduction 1 Staring, the Filmic Stare, and Theorizing Disability 2 Physical Disabilities and the Filmic Stare in Richard II and Titus Andronicus 3 Caliban and the Filmic Stare 4 Madness, the Filmic Stare, and Hamlet 5 Madness, the Filmic Stare, and Ophelia 6 Madness, the Filmic Stare, and Macbeth 7 The Filmic Stare and Digital Broadcast Cinema Conclusion Index