"To Hear and See the Matter": Communicating Technology in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet (2000)
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 42, Number 3, Spring 2003
- pp. 48-69
- 10.1353/cj.2003.0007
- Article
- Additional Information
This essay argues that Michael Almereyda's film of Hamlet (2000) is a distinctively postmodernist cinematic statement that charts the ways in which the act of filmmaking allows a release from the pressures of global capitalism at the same moment as it creates a space for the articulation of a coherent subjectivity.