Shakespeare on Film

ISBN-13: 9780582437166 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 1 str.

Judith Buchanan

Opis

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. ' How did Shakespeare make the movies? How did the movies make Shakespeare? And how do the movies keep remaking him? Shakespeare on Film answers these questions. It looks at Shakespeare on the silent screen; in the art-house and the multiplex; from Asta Nielsen to Julie Taymor; in the hands of auteurs like Kurosawa, Jarman, Branagh ...

Spis treści

Part I: 'Degrees of Remove': Translating the Language, Translating the Story  1. An Excellent Dumb Discourse: British and American Shakespeare Films, 1899-1916  2. 'Wresting an Alphabet': Continental European Shakespeare Films, 1907-22  3. Cross-cultural Narrative Rhymes: The Shakespeare Films of Akira Kurosawa  4. Roguish Interventions: American Shakespearean Offshoots  Part II: Moment and Context: How History Works on Story  5. Historically Juxtaposed Beans (I): A Midsummer Night's Dream on Film  6. Historically Juxtaposed Beans (II): ­ The Tempest on Film  7. Boxing with Ghosts: The Shakespeare Films of Kenneth Branagh  8. Leaves of Brass and Gads of Steel: Cinema as Subject in Shakespeare Films, 1991-2000  Filmography  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Dr Judith Buchanan is a Lecturer in Film at the Department of English and Related Literature, University of York.