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Author Maerz, Jessica M., author

Title Metanarrative functions of film genre in Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare films : strange bedfellows / by Jessica M. Maerz
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 144 pages)
Contents Introduction : Generic Shakespeare -- Chapter one : Henry V's body generic : picturing the king -- Chapter two : Much ado about genre : Branagh's screwball Shakespeare -- Chapter three : Swing time : Love's labour's lost and Branagh's Broadway melodies -- Conclusion : Don't call it a comeback : Branagh's As you like it
Summary Kenneth Branagh is the most important contemporary figure in the production of filmed Shakespeare. His five feature-length Shakespeare films both created and represented the explosion of filmed Shakespeare adaptations that began in the 1990s. This book demonstrates Branagh's appeal to classical film genres in order to meta-narrate for a popular audience the unfamiliar terrain of the Shakespearean original; it examines the debts Branagh owes, stylistically and structurally, to classically-defined generic modes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-142) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Branagh, Kenneth -- Criticism and interpretation
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Film adaptations
SUBJECT Branagh, Kenneth fast
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Subject Film, TV & radio.
Literature & literary studies.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Film adaptations
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781443893381
1443893382