Shakespeare and the English-speaking Cinema Paperback / softback
by Russell (Allardyce Nicoll Professor of Drama, Allardyce Nicoll Professor of Drama, Universi Jackson
Part of the Oxford Shakespeare Topics series
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Shakespeare and the English-speaking Cinema is a lively, authoritative, and innovative overview of the ways in which Shakespeare's plays have been adapted for cinema. Organised by topics rather than chronology, it offers detailed commentary on significant films, including both 'mainstream' and 'canonical' works by such directors as Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Franco Zeffirelli, and Kenneth Branagh, and such ground-breaking movies as Derek Jarman's The Tempest, Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet and Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books.
Chapters on the location of films in place and time, the effect of this on characterisation, and issues of gender and political power are followed by a discussion of work that goes 'beyond Shakespeare.
A filmography and suggestions for further reading complete this stimulating, fresh, and accessible account of an important aspect of Shakespeare studies.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages, 11 black-and-white halftones
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:18/09/2014
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- ISBN:9780199659463
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages, 11 black-and-white halftones
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:18/09/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199659463