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标题：Baudrillard, Hyperreality, and the Evil in Othello and The Hateful Eight
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作者：Pouria Torkamaneh ; Farhad Poordakan ; Pedram Lalbakhsh 等
期刊名称：CINEJ Cinema Journal
印刷版ISSN：2158-8724
出版年度：2021
卷号：9
期号：1
页码：346-370
DOI：10.5195/cinej.2021.354
语种：English
出版社：University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
摘要：Shakespeare’s tragedies and Quentin Tarantino’s aesthetically violent films bear striking similarities in the problematization of both villainy and reality. Such concerns reverberate the most in Othello (1604) and The Hateful Eight (2015). Although critical scholarship about both works abounds, this essay offers an alternative approach by consulting the thoughts of Jean Baudrillard on the issues of hyperreality, criminality, and terrorism. The dialogue between the three can be important in two ways. First, it establishes a link between Early Modern and contemporary culture by engaging three canonical figures. Second, it provides a novel commentary about each artistic piece by drawing on the profound ways (hyper)reality and villainy can function. The essay also discusses the (non-voluntaristic) crises of reality that follow, when opposing parties battle for the ultimate power.
关键词：Baudrillard; hyperreality; Othello; Shakespeare; Tarantino; terrorism; The Hateful Eight