Spatial Sexualities: The Private, the Social and the Distinctively Deadly in Othello on Screen

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Page Range:: 109–118

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848880207_010

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With the technological resources at their disposal, modern film directors can present sexuality spatially in innovative ways when adapting Shakespeare's Othello for the screen. In Shakespeare's early modern domestic tragedy of Othello the bedroom articulates a complex form of spatial sexuality. Othello kills his wife on their marital bed ‘else she’ll betray more men’ (5.2.6) and then commits suicide when he discovers that he has wrongfully murdered her. Concentrating on the configuration of the bedroom in Oliver Parker’s 1995 cinematic version of Shakespeare’s early modern tragedy, this chapter explores the complex interweaving of sexuality and space. The discussion demonstrates how spatial sexualities are constructed through the interpenetration of a myriad of discourses relating to identity, authority, hegemony, gender, race and sexuality. The analysis highlights how Parker’s erotic thriller constructs a distinctive spatial sexuality relevant to the genre of the film. The chapter puts forward how the debates established through the dialogue between sexuality and space are not resolved at the end of this cinematic adaptation of Othello.

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Examining Aspects of Sexuality and the Self

ISBN:: 9781848880207

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 29 Apr 2010

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