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1 online resource (177 pages) |
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Screen Adaptations |
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Screen adaptations.
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Cover page; Halftitle page; RELATED TITLES; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; CREDITS/FILMOGRAPHY; 1 Literary contexts; Hamlet in its time; Shakespeare's sources; The text; Hamlet and revenge; Hamlet as intellectual hero; Politics and religion; Hamlet in our time; Hamlet and Freud; Hamlet in the Age of Aquarius; Hamlet in contemporary performance; Hamlet and the art of adaptation; Notes; 2 Laurence Olivier's Hamlet: From text to screen; Screenplay; Film score; Landscape and atmosphere; Camera; Stage and film conventions; Hamlet and Gertrude |
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FlashbacksHamlet at mid-century; Notes; 3 Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet: From text to screen; Branagh and Olivier; Screenplay; Film score; Landscape and character; Camera; Flashcuts and flashbacks; Landscape and atmosphere; Hamlet and fin de siècle; Notes; 4 Critical responses and the afterlife of text and film; Olivier's Hamlet: Afterlife; Olivier's Hamlet: Critical response; Olivier's Hamlet and selected Hamlet films: 1948-1990; Grigori Kozintsev's Hamlet (1964); Tony Richardson's Hamlet (1969); Franco Zeffirelli's Hamlet (1990); Branagh's Hamlet: A new paradigm |
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Branagh's Hamlet and the Shakespeare films of the 1990sBranagh's Hamlet: Critical response; Branagh's Hamlet and selected Hamlet films: 1996-2006; Michael Almereyda's Hamlet (2000); Campbell Scott's Hamlet (2001); Sherwood Hu's Prince of the Himalayas (2006); Notes; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
| Summary |
Hamlet is the most often produced play in the western literary canon, and a fertile global source for film adaptation. Samuel Crowl, a noted scholar of Shakespeare on film, unpacks the process of adapting from text to screen through concentrating on two sharply contrasting film versions of Hamlet by Laurence Olivier (1948) and Kenneth Branagh (1996). The films' socio-political contexts are explored, and the importance of their screenplay, film score, setting, cinematography and editing examined. Offering an analysis of two of the most important figures in the history of film adaptations of Sha |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Film adaptations.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
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Hamlet (Shakespeare, William) fast |
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English drama -- Film adaptations
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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English drama
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| Genre/Form |
Film adaptations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781472538932 |
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1472538935 |
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1472538919 |
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9781472538918 |
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1408129558 |
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9781408129555 |
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