Shakespeare on film. (2015)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Shakespeare on film. (2015)
- Main Title:
- Shakespeare on film
- Further Information:
- Note: Maurice Hindle.
- Authors:
- Hindle, Maurice
- Contents:
- List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations/Acronyms; Preface to the Second Edition; Introduction; PART I: SHAKESPEARE AND THE LANGUAGE OF FILM; Filming and Staging Shakespeare: Some Contrasts; The Audience: Individual and Collective Experience; Imagery: Verbal and Visual; Bringing It All Together; PART II THE HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE ON FILM 1899-2014; Silent Shakespeare; The Thirties: Hollywood Shakespeare; The Forties: Olivier and Welles; The Fifties: Post-war Diversity; The Sixties and Seventies: Cultural Revolution, Filmic Innovation; The Nineties: Branagh's Renaissance and the Shakespeare on Film Revival; Shakespeare on Film in the 21st Century; PART III COMMUNICATING SHAKESPEARE ON FILM: MODES, STYLES, GENRES; The Theatrical Mode; The Realistic Mode; The Filmic Mode; The Periodizing Mode; Film Genre: Conventions and Codes; Genre Conventions and the Shakespeare Film Adaptation; A Cross-cultural Shakespeare Adaptation: Kurosawa's <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Kumonosu-Jo ; PART IV: CRITICAL ESSAYS; COMEDIES; Introductory Note; Kenneth Branagh's <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Much Ado About Nothing (UK, 1993); Adrian Noble's <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">A Midsummer Night's Dream (UK, 1996); Michael Hoffman's <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">A Midsummer Night's Dream (USA, 1999); HISTORIES; Introductory Note; Laurence Olivier's <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Henry V (UK, 1994); Kenneth Branagh's <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Henry V (UK, 1989);List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations/Acronyms; Preface to the Second Edition; Introduction; PART I: SHAKESPEARE AND THE LANGUAGE OF FILM; Filming and Staging Shakespeare: Some Contrasts; The Audience: Individual and Collective Experience; Imagery: Verbal and Visual; Bringing It All Together; PART II THE HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE ON FILM 1899-2014; Silent Shakespeare; The Thirties: Hollywood Shakespeare; The Forties: Olivier and Welles; The Fifties: Post-war Diversity; The Sixties and Seventies: Cultural Revolution, Filmic Innovation; The Nineties: Branagh's Renaissance and the Shakespeare on Film Revival; Shakespeare on Film in the 21st Century; PART III COMMUNICATING SHAKESPEARE ON FILM: MODES, STYLES, GENRES; The Theatrical Mode; The Realistic Mode; The Filmic Mode; The Periodizing Mode; Film Genre: Conventions and Codes; Genre Conventions and the Shakespeare Film Adaptation; A Cross-cultural Shakespeare Adaptation: Kurosawa's <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Kumonosu-Jo ; PART IV: CRITICAL ESSAYS; COMEDIES; Introductory Note; Kenneth Branagh's <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Much Ado About Nothing (UK, 1993); Adrian Noble's <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">A Midsummer Night's Dream (UK, 1996); Michael Hoffman's <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">A Midsummer Night's Dream (USA, 1999); HISTORIES; Introductory Note; Laurence Olivier's <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Henry V (UK, 1994); Kenneth Branagh's <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Henry V (UK, 1989); Laurence Olivier's <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Richard III (UK, 1955); Richard Loncraine's <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Richard III (UK, 1995); TRAGEDIES; Introductory; Franco Zeffirelli's <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Romeo and Juliet (UK/Italy, 1968); Baz Luhrmann's <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (USA, 1996); Laurence Olivier's <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Hamlet (UK, 1948); Kenneth Branagh's <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Hamlet (UK, 1996); Michael Almereyda's <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Hamlet (USA, 2000); Orson Welles's <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Macbeth (USA, 1948); Roman Polanski's <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Macbeth (UK, 1971); PART V SHAKESPEARE ON THE SMALL SCREEN; Film, TV and Small Screen Shakespeare; The BBC-TV Series: Shooting the Complete Canon; The Stage-Screen Hybrid: Shakespeare on TV/DVD/Blu-ray; Appendix: Filming Shakespeare for the Small Screen - An Interview with John Wyver, <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Illuminations filmmaker and producer; References; Suggested Further Reading; Select Filmography; Some Useful Websites; Glossary of Terms; Index; … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations
- Subjects:
- 791.436
Film & Video/History & Criticism
Shakespeare
Plays, playscripts
Film, TV & radio
Film adaptations - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781137531735
1137531738 - Access Rights:
- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
- Access Usage:
- Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.
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- Physical Locations:
- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.59770
- Ingest File:
- 02_058.xml