Shakespeare on film. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• 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); 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;
• 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.