Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film

Name: Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film
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ISBN: 9780521685016

ISBN-10: 052168501X

ISBN-13: 9780521685016

Edition: 2nd 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Russell Jackson

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Film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays are increasingly popular and now figure prominently in the study of his work and its reception. This lively Companion is a collection of critical and historical essays on the films adapted from, and inspired by, Shakespeare's plays. An international team of leading scholars discuss Shakespearean films from a variety of perspectives: as works of art in their own right; as products of the international movie industry; in terms of cinematic and theatrical genres; and as the work of particular directors from Laurence Olivier and Orson Welles to Franco Zeffirelli and Kenneth Branagh. They also consider specific issues such as the portrayal of Shakespeare's…

Book details

List price: $35.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/29/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 366
Size: 6.06" wide x 8.90" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Russell Jackson is Allardyce Nicoll Professor of Drama in the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts, University of Birmingham



List of contributors


Preface


A note on references


Introduction: Shakespeare, films and the marketplace




Adaptation and Its Contexts



From play-script to screenplay




Video and its paradoxes




Critical junctures in Shakespeare screen history: the case of Richard III




Shakespeare and movie genre: the case of Hamlet




Genres and Plays



The comedies on film




Filming Shakespeare's history: three films of Richard III




Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear on film




The tragedies of love on film




Directors



The Shakespeare films of Laurence Olivier




Orson Welles and filmed Shakespeare




Grigori Kozintsev's Hamlet and King Lear




Franco Zeffirelli and Shakespeare




Flamboyant realist: Kenneth Branagh




Critical Issues



Looking at Shakespeare's women on film




National and racial stereotypes in Shakespeare films




Shakespeare the illusionist: filming the supernatural




Shakespeare's cinematic offshoots



Further reading


Filmography


Index