I've heard a fair amount about FRBR in class, also, and thought that I pretty much understood the most basic parts of it, until you brought that up.
That brings me to Shakespeare. So much of the total cultureal output is based on Shakespeare, and a lot of it makes more sense or at least seems more informed when one realizes the material that it is based upon. However, how far does this go? Should Akira Kurosawa's film Ran, described on the box as a "brilliantly concieved retelling of King Lear", be associated with the play?
I certainly wouldn't want to see Ran without knowing that it was based on King Lear. It is definitely better art than the "translations" of Shakespeare into "contemporary English", but that is really beside the point. It seems that it should be associated, like Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now, in some way, perhaps as a sort of "see also", but I don't think that is what FRBR is for - FRBR is so that you aren't browsing through a couple hundred entries in your OPAC for King Lear to see which of the three editions that are owned by your location are on the shelf.
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But what about Shakespeare?
Date: 2004-04-24 06:37 am (UTC)That brings me to Shakespeare. So much of the total cultureal output is based on Shakespeare, and a lot of it makes more sense or at least seems more informed when one realizes the material that it is based upon. However, how far does this go? Should Akira Kurosawa's film Ran, described on the box as a "brilliantly concieved retelling of King Lear", be associated with the play?
I certainly wouldn't want to see Ran without knowing that it was based on King Lear. It is definitely better art than the "translations" of Shakespeare into "contemporary English", but that is really beside the point. It seems that it should be associated, like Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now, in some way, perhaps as a sort of "see also", but I don't think that is what FRBR is for - FRBR is so that you aren't browsing through a couple hundred entries in your OPAC for King Lear to see which of the three editions that are owned by your location are on the shelf.