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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Abbreviations/Acronyms | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Shakespeare and the Language of Film | |
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| Filming and Staging Shakespeare: Some Contrasts | |
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| The Audience: Individual and Collective Experience | |
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| The Space of the Movie Screen | |
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| Imagery: Verbal and Visual | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| The History of Shakespeare on Film 1899-2005 | |
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| Silent Shakespeare | |
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| The Thirties: Hollywood Shakespeare | |
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| The Forties: Olivier and Welles | |
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| The Fifties: Postwar diversity | |
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| The Sixties and Seventies: Cultural Revolution, Filmic Innovation | |
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| The Nineties: Branagh's Renaissance and the Shakespeare on Film Revival | |
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| and Beyond: Shakespeare on Film in the New Millennium | |
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| Communicating Shakespeare on Film: Modes, Styles, Genres | |
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| The Theatrical Mode | |
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| The Realistic Mode | |
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| The Filmic Mode | |
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| The Periodising Mode | |
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| Film Genre: Conventions and Codes | |
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| Genre conventions and the Shakespeare Film Adaptation | |
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| A Cross-cultural Shakespeare Adaptation: Kurosawa's Kumonosu-Djo (The Castle of the Spider's Web: Throne of Blood) | |
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| Shakespeare on Film: Critical Essays | |
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| Comedies: Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream | |
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| Histories: Henry V, Richard III | |
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| Tragedies: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth | |
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| Shakespeare on Television | |
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| Film and TV: the Key Differences | |
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| The BBC-TV Series: Shooting the Complete Canon | |
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| TV Shakespeare: the Stage/Screen Hybrid | |
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| Box Office Data for Selected Shakespeare Film Adaptations on Theatrical Release in US Movie Theatres from 1989 | |
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| Kenneth Brannagh's Much Ado About Nothing (1993): Structure of Emotional Registers and Rhythms | |
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| References | |
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| Suggested Further Reading | |
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| List of Films Discussed | |
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| Some Useful Websites | |
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| Glossary of Terms | |
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| Index | |
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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| |
| Abbreviations/Acronyms | |
| |
| |
| Introduction | |
| |
| |
| |
| Shakespeare and the Language of Film | |
| |
| |
| Filming and Staging Shakespeare: Some Contrasts | |
| |
| |
| The Audience: Individual and Collective Experience | |
| |
| |
| The Space of the Movie Screen | |
| |
| |
| Imagery: Verbal and Visual | |
| |
| |
| Putting It All Together | |
| |
| |
| |
| The History of Shakespeare on Film 1899-2005 | |
| |
| |
| Silent Shakespeare | |
| |
| |
| The Thirties: Hollywood Shakespeare | |
| |
| |
| The Forties: Olivier and Welles | |
| |
| |
| The Fifties: Postwar diversity | |
| |
| |
| The Sixties and Seventies: Cultural Revolution, Filmic Innovation | |
| |
| |
| The Nineties: Branagh's Renaissance and the Shakespeare on Film Revival | |
| |
| |
| l2000 mand Beyond: Shakespeare on Film in the New Millennium | |
| |
| |
| |
| Communicating Shakespeare on Film: Modes, Styles, Genres | |
| |
| |
| The Theatrical Mode | |
| |
| |
| The Realistic Mode | |
| |
| |
| The Filmic Mode | |
| |
| |
| The Periodising Mode | |
| |
| |
| Film Genre: Conventions and Codes | |
| |
| |
| Genre conventions and the Shakespeare Film Adaptation | |
| |
| |
| A Cross-cultural Shakespeare Adaptation: Kurosawa's Kumonosu-Djo (The Castle of the Spider's Web: Throne of Blood) | |
| |
| |
| |
| Shakespeare on Film: Critical Essays | |
| |
| |
| Comedies: Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream | |
| |
| |
| Histories: Henry V, Richard III | |
| |
| |
| Tragedies: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth | |
| |
| |
| |
| Shakespeare on Television | |
| |
| |
| Film and TV: the Key Differences | |
| |
| |
| The BBC-TV Series: Shooting the Complete Canon | |
| |
| |
| TV Shakespeare: the Stage/Screen Hybrid | |
| |
| |
| |
| Box Office Data for Selected Shakespeare Film Adaptations on Theatrical Release in US Movie Theatres from 1989 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Kenneth Brannagh's Much Ado About Nothing (1993): Structure of Emotional Registers and Rhythms | |
| |
| |
| References | |
| |
| |
| Suggested Further Reading | |
| |
| |
| List of Films Discussed | |
| |
| |
| Some Useful Websites | |
| |
| |
| Glossary of Terms | |
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| Index | |