
Víctor Huertas-MartínUniversity of Valencia | UV · Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya
Víctor Huertas-Martín
Doctor of Philosophy
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Introduction
I wrote my PhD Dissertation on Shakespeare on television. I have worked on stage-to-screen adaptations of Shakespearean plays broadcast by BBC and Channel Four. I have written articles on Shakespeare on the Spanish screen. Likewise, I am writing on the impact of Shakespeare in contemporary complex TV series. I am co-editor of Television Series as Literature. I am main researcher of CIRCE: Early Modern Theatre on Screen (CIGE/2021/086).
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Shakespearean intertexts serve narrative and ideological functions in contemporary complex TV series. While scholars and press reviewers have pointed at this fact, few steps have been taken to explore the narrative implications of the Shakespearean intertexts in complex TV series. This article contextualizes complex TV series within a social, polit...
Using Shakespeare’s criticism and archival theory as lenses, this article enlarges understandings of the interconnections between a complex television series and Shakespeare. Forming a Shakespearean archive, Sons of Anarchy (SOA), based on Hamlet and other plays by Shakespeare, is packed with Shakespearean allusions, rather than citations, whose im...
This book explores how television series can be understood as a form of literature, bridging the gap between literary and television studies. It goes beyond existing adaptation studies and narratological approaches to television series in both its scope and depth. The respective chapters address literary works, themes, tropes, techniques, values, g...
Rupert Goold’s screen production of Macbeth – firstly, staged in 2007 and, later, filmed in 2010 – has been studied as an example of the stage-to-screen hybrid corpus of Shakespearean audio-visual adaptations. Thus, much of the critical emphasis on the production has been placed on its filmic qualities. Particularly, the genre film conventions depl...
Boardwalk Empire (HBO, 2010–2014), a gangster series set in the Prohibition era, is based upon the premise that the gangster—and, by extension, the rest of the characters—intends to reach redemption after a lifetime of struggle and corruption. Regarded as a vehicle for enlightenment, literature is taken by characters as a means to such personal red...
In this introduction, Víctor Huertas Martín and Reto Winckler argue that despite the fraught critical history of comparisons between the two art forms, reading television series as literature provides valuable perspectives from which to comprehend and appreciate one of the predominant forms of popular storytelling in the twenty-first century. After...
T his article proposes a methodology to study Shakespearean intertexts in contemporary complex TV series. While the presence of Shakespeare’s inter-texts in contemporary complex TV seems ubiquitous, a sustained and theoretically focused academic study of the impact of Shakespeare in these works has not been produced. Reviewers and social media user...
This article explores metatheatricality and site specificity in four Shakespeare television films produced by Illuminations Media: Gregory Doran’s Macbeth (2001), Hamlet (2009) and Julius Caesar (2012), and Rupert Goold’s Macbeth (2010). Drawing on metatheatrical theory applied to the screen and recent criticism on site-specific theatre, I explore...
The past 20 years have seen the rise of the once-humble television series to new heights of popular success and critical estimation. Given this rise, this book asks if and how contemporary scripted television and web series can be read as a form of literature. While Jason Mittel and others have made a convincing case that complex contemporary TV se...
Este artículo estudia la dialéctica que se da entre los cuerpos de los actores y la tecnología virtual en la producción de The Tempest de Gregory Doran (2016-2017). Dicha dialéctica será observada desde una óptica marxista – principalmente a partir del trabajo de Silvia Federici – y desde la crítica textual y escénica del texto de Shakespeare. Aspe...
Eating Shakespeare provides a constructive critical analysis of the issue of Shakespeare and globalization and revisits understandings of interculturalism, otherness, hybridity and cultural (in)authenticity. Featuring scholarly essays as well as interviews and conversation pieces with creatives – including Geraldo Carneiro, Fernando Yamamoto, Diana...
This article contends that Gregory Doran's production of Macbeth (2001) was, when translated to television, transformed into a metaplay. Although various previous analyses of Shakespeare's Macbeth have explored its metatheatricality, this artistic concept has not been tackled with respect to this production in particular. In this work I am examinin...
This article deals with Rupert Goold’s film version of Macbeth (2010). Based on a stage production, this film is set in an unspecified Soviet country. I will analyze Goold’s creation of a stage-to-screen hybrid recording framed as a surveillance film. Relying on Michel Foucault’s and Gilles Deleuze’s works as well as various contributions made by C...