Shakespeare on Film
Title | Shakespeare on Film PDF eBook |
Author | Judith R. Buchanan |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2014-07-22 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1317874978 |
From the earliest days of the cinema to the present, Shakespeare has offered a tempting bank of source material than the film industry has been happy to plunder. Shakespeare on Film deftly examines an extensive range of films that have emerged from the curious union of an iconic dramatist with a medium of mass appeal. The many films Buchanan studies are shown to be telling indicators of trends in Shakespearean performance interpretation, illuminating markers of developments in the film industry and culturally revealing about broader influences in the world beyond the movie theatre. As with other titles from the Inside Film series, the book is illustrated throughout with stills. Each chapter concludes with a list of suggested further reading in the field.
100 Shakespeare Films
Title | 100 Shakespeare Films PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Rosenthal |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 477 |
Release | 2019-07-25 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1838714081 |
From Oscar-winning British classics to Hollywood musicals and Westerns, from Soviet epics to Bollywood thrillers, Shakespeare has inspired an almost infinite variety of films. Directors as diverse as Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh, Baz Luhrmann and Julie Taymor have transferred Shakespeare's plays from stage to screen with unforgettable results. Spanning a century of cinema, from a silent short of 'The Tempest' (1907) to Kenneth Branagh's 'As You Like It' (2006), Daniel Rosenthal's up-to-date selection takes in the most important, inventive and unusual Shakespeare films ever made. Half are British and American productions that retain Shakespeare's language, including key works such as Olivier's 'Henry V' and 'Hamlet', Welles' 'Othello' and 'Chimes at Midnight', Branagh's 'Henry V' and 'Hamlet', Luhrmann's 'Romeo + Juliet' and Taymor's 'Titus'. Alongside these original-text films are more than 30 genre adaptations: titles that aim for a wider audience by using modernized dialogue and settings and customizing Shakespeare's plots and characters, transforming 'Macbeth' into a pistol-packing gangster ('Joe Macbeth' and 'Maqbool') or reimagining 'Othello' as a jazz musician ('All Night Long'). There are Shakesepeare-based Westerns ('Broken Lance', 'King of Texas'), musicals ('West Side Story', 'Kiss Me Kate'), high-school comedies ('10 Things I Hate About You', 'She's the Man'), even a sci-fi adventure ('Forbidden Planet'). There are also films dominated by the performance of a Shakespearean play ('In the Bleak Midwinter', 'Shakespeare in Love'). Rosenthal emphasises the global nature of Shakespearean cinema, with entries on more than 20 foreign-language titles, including Kurosawa's 'Throne of Blood and Ran', Grigori Kozintsev's 'Russian Hamlet' and 'King Lear', and little-known features from as far afield as 'Madagascar' and 'Venezuela', some never released in Britain or the US. He considers the films' production and box-office history and examines the film-makers' key interpretive decisions in comparison to their Shakespearean sources, focusing on cinematography, landscape, music, performance, production design, textual alterations and omissions. As cinema plays an increasingly important role in the study of Shakespeare at schools and universities, this is a wide-ranging, entertaining and accessible guide for Shakespeare teachers, students and enthusiasts.
Shakespeare on Film
Title | Shakespeare on Film PDF eBook |
Author | Jack J. Jorgens |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780835766937 |
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film PDF eBook |
Author | Russell Jackson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 12 |
Release | 2007-03-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 052168501X |
This companion is a collection of critical and historical essays on the films adapted from, and inspired by, Shakespeare's plays. The emphasis is on feature films for cinema with strong coverage Hamlet, Richard III, Macbeth, King Lear and Romeo and Juliet.
Cinematic Shakespeare
Title | Cinematic Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Michael A. Anderegg |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780742510920 |
Michael Anderegg investigates how Shakespeare films constitute an exciting & ever-changing film genre. He looks closely at films by Olivier, Welles, & Branagh, as well as postmodern Shakespeares & multiple adaptations over the years of 'Romeo and Juliet'.
Shakespeare and Film
Title | Shakespeare and Film PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Crowl |
Publisher | W W Norton & Company Incorporated |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780393927658 |
Written with verve and insight by an award-winning teacher and scholar, Shakespeare and Film: A Norton Guide is the ideal introduction to film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays from the silent era tot the present.
A History of Shakespeare on Screen
Title | A History of Shakespeare on Screen PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth S. Rothwell |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2004-10-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521543118 |
This edition of A History of Shakespeare on Screen updates the chronology to 2003, with a new chapter on recent films.