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Published: 29th December 2004
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Published: 29th November 2004A History of Shakespeare on Screen chronicles how film-makers have re-imagined Shakespeare's plays from the earliest exhibitions in music halls and nickelodeons to today's multi-million dollar productions shown in megaplexes. Topics include the silent era, Hollywood in the Golden Age, the films of Laurence Olivier and Orson Welles, the television scene to include the BBC plays, the avant-garde cinema of Jarman and Greenaway, and non-Anglophone contributions from Japan and elsewhere. This second edition updates the chronology to the year 2003 and includes a new chapter on such recent films as John Madden's Shakespeare in Love, Kenneth Branagh's Love's Labours Lost, Michael Almereyda's Hamlet, and Billy Morrissette's Scotland, Pa. An up-to-date filmography, bibliography, and index of names makes it invaluable as a one-volume reference work for specialists, while the accessible style will ensure that it also appeals to a wider audience of Shakespeareans and cinephiles.
"...The best book this reviewer has ever read on this subject, this title is a must for any library, where it will serve undergraduates through faculty interested in film and/or Shakespeare." Choice
| Preface | |
| List of illustrations | |
| Shakespeare in silence: in search of the æbest class of peopleÆ | |
| HollywoodÆs four seasons of Shakespeare: Kate is heard as well as seen | |
| Laurence Olivier: marketing Shakespeare for the better classes | |
| Orson Welles, auteur: Shakespeare for the arthouses | |
| Shakespeare in the age of electronics: TV, electronovision, videocassette, laser disk, CD-ROM and WWW | |
| Shakespeare in sunny Italy: spectacle and song in Castellani and Zeffirelli | |
| The darker vision: the Shakespeare movie in the age of angst | |
| æOther ShakespearesÆ in other realms: translation, adaptation, transformation and expropriation | |
| Shakespeare movies of different kinds: æcinema of transgressionÆ, derivatives and beyond the fringe | |
| The renaissance of Shakespeare in moving images: across the mall and into the multiplex | |
| Bibliography | |
| Filmography and title | |
| Index | |
| Name | |
| index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9780521543118
ISBN-10: 0521543118
Audience:
Tertiary; University or College
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 400
Published: 29th December 2004
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 22.23 x 14.61
x 2.54
Weight (kg): 0.63
Edition Number: 2
Edition Type: Revised
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