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 Kumonosu-Jo PART IV: CRITICAL ESSAYS COMEDIES Introductory Note Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing (UK, 1993) Adrian Noble's A Midsummer Night's Dream (UK, 1996) Michael Hoffman's A Midsummer Night's Dream (USA, 1999) HISTORIES Introductory Note Laurence Olivier's Henry V (UK, 1994) Kenneth Branagh's Henry V (UK, 1989) Laurence Olivier's Richard III (UK, 1955) Richard Loncraine's Richard III (UK, 1995) TRAGEDIES Introductory Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (UK/Italy, 1968) Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (USA, 1996) Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (UK, 1948) Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (UK, 1996) Michael Almereyda's Hamlet (USA, 2000) Orson Welles's Macbeth (USA, 1948) Roman Polanski's 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, Illuminations filmmaker and producer References Suggested Further Reading Select Filmography Some Useful Websites Glossary of Terms Index.
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: London : The Arden Shakespeare
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (340 pages)
• Subjects: Performing Arts -- General; Film, TV & radio
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350316942; 1350316946
• Related ISBNs: 9781137286840
• 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).
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