A South African Romeo and Juliet : gender identity in Minky Schlesinger’s Gugu and Andile

dc.contributor.authorBotha, Chandre
dc.contributor.authorBroodryk, Chris Willem
dc.contributor.emailchris.broodryk@up.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-02T05:00:16Z
dc.date.available2018-07-02T05:00:16Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThis article examines how gender identity is represented in a filmic adaptation of Shakespeare’s play text Romeo and Juliet within South Africa’s postcolonial context, thereby positioning identity politics as crucial in the decolonial project. This article focuses on Minky Schlesinger’s South African adaptation of Romeo and Juliet titled Gugu and Andile (2009). Schlesinger’s film is compared to Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet (1968) and Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996) to comparatively contextualise and sharpen an analysis of gender identity in Schlesinger’s film. In our analysis of the selected films we examine the mise-en-scène in each film to establish how the films comment on, subvert or maintain certain gender identities.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentDramaen_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2018en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.journals.co.za/content/journal/iseasosaen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationBotha, C. & Broodryk, C. 2017, 'A South African Romeo and Juliet : gender identity in Minky Schlesinger’s Gugu and Andile', Shakespeare in Southern Africa, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 56-69.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1011-582X
dc.identifier.other10.4314/sisa.v30i1.6S
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/65272
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherShakespeare Society of Southern Africaen_ZA
dc.rightsShakespeare Society of Southern Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectGender identityen_ZA
dc.subjectRomeo and Julieten_ZA
dc.subjectMise-en-scèneen_ZA
dc.subjectFilmen_ZA
dc.titleA South African Romeo and Juliet : gender identity in Minky Schlesinger’s Gugu and Andileen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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