| Description |
xi, 206 pages ; 22 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
New casebooks |
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New casebooks.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Robert Shaughnessy -- 1. Realising Shakespeare on Film / Jack J. Jorgens -- 2. Laurence Olivier's Henry V / Anthony Davies -- 3. Shakespeare and Film: A Question of Perspective / Catherine Belsey -- 4. Radical Potentiality and Institutional Closure / Graham Holderness -- 5. Symbolism in Shakespeare Film / John Collick -- 6. Oliver, Hamlet, and Freud / Peter S. Donaldson -- 7. Branagh and the Prince, or a 'royal fellowship of death' / Curtis Breight -- 8. A Post-National European Cinema: A Consideration of Derek Jarman's The Tempest and Edward II / Colin Maccabe -- 9. Katherina Bound; or, Play(K)ating the Strictures of Everyday Life / Barbara Hodgdon -- 10. Drowning the Book: Prospero's Books and the Textual Shakespeare / Douglas Lanier |
| Summary |
This collection of contemporary criticism highlights the ways in which recent discussion of Shakespeare on film has drawn upon the theoretical perspectives of Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis and poststructuralism, 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 |
| Analysis |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Film and video adaptations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Film adaptations.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Television adaptations.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Filmand video adaptations
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English drama -- Film adaptations.
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English drama -- Television adaptations.
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English drama -- Filmand video adaptations
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| Genre/Form |
Film adaptations.
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| Author |
Shaughnessy, Robert, 1962-
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| LC no. |
98009817 |
| ISBN |
0312214472 (St.Martin's Press : cloth) |
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0312214480 (St.Martin's Press : pbk.) |
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0333720164 (hardcover) |
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0333720172 (paperback) |
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