Shakespeare on Film: Contemporary Critical Essays

ISBN-13: 9780333720172 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 206 str.

Robert Shaughnessy;Catherine Belsey;Curtis Breight

Opis

This collection of contemporary criticism highlights the extent to which recent discussion of Shakespeare on film has drawn upon the theoretical perspectives of Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis and post-structuralism, generating a radical reappraisal of a Shakespearean cinema which has itself experienced a revival in the last decade. Ranging widely across the canon of Shakespeare films, from Max Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream to Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books, the essays address the cultural politics of film adaptation from a variety of angles, offering readings of individual films - Hamlet, Henry V, The Tempest - but also raising larger questions about the nature, purpose and future direction of Shakespearean cinema.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.- General Editor's Preface.- Introduction; R.Shaughnessy.- Realising Shakespeare on Film; J.J.Jorgens.- Laurence Olivier's Henry V; A.Davies.- Shakespeare and Film: A Question of Perspective; C.Belsey.- Radical Potentiality and Institutional Closure; G.Holderness.- Symbolism in Shakespeare Film; J.Collick.- Olivier, Hamlet and Freud; P.S.Donaldson.- Branagh and the Prince, or a 'royal fellowship of death'; C.Breight.- A Post-National European Cinema: A Consideration of Derek Jarman's The Tempest and Edward II; C.MacCabe.- Katherina Bound; or Play(K)ating the Strictures of Everyday Life; B.Hodgdon.- Drowning the Book: Prospero's Books and the Textual Shakespeare; D.Lanier.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.

O autorze

ROBERT SHAUGHNESSY is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of the West of England, Bristol. His previous publications include Three Socialist Plays and Representing Shakespeare: England, History and the RSC.