The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare on screen:

Shakespeare and the film industry of the pre-sound era / Judith Buchanan -- Adaptation and the marketing of Shakespeare in classical Hollywood / Deborah Cartmell -- Shakespeare 'live' / Peter Holland -- Shakespearean cinemas/global directions / Mark Thornton Burnett -- The comedies on scre...

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Weitere Verfasser: Jackson, Russell 1949- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge ; New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2020
Ausgabe:First published
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge companions to literature
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Zusammenfassung:Shakespeare and the film industry of the pre-sound era / Judith Buchanan -- Adaptation and the marketing of Shakespeare in classical Hollywood / Deborah Cartmell -- Shakespeare 'live' / Peter Holland -- Shakespearean cinemas/global directions / Mark Thornton Burnett -- The comedies on screen / Ramona Wray -- The environments of tragedy on screen : Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth / Peter Kirwan -- Two tragedies of love : Romeo and Juliet and Othello / Victoria Bladen -- 'Sad stories of the death of kings' - the hollow crown and the Shakespearean history play on screen / Kinga Földváry -- The Roman plays on film / Peter J. Smith -- Screening Shakespearean fantasy and romance in A midsummer night's dream and The tempest / Anthony Guy Patricia -- Questions of racism : The merchant of Venice and Othello / Russell Jackson -- 'A wail in the silence' : feminism, sexuality, and final meanings in King Lear films by Grigorii Kozintsev, Peter Brook, and Akira Kurosawa / Courtney Lehmann -- Violence, tragic and comic, in Coriolanus and The taming of the shrew / Patricia Lennox -- The Shakespeare films of Orson Welles / Emma Smith -- Kurosawa's Shakespeare : mute heavens, merging world or the metaphors of cruelty / Anne-Marie Costantini-Cornède -- Zeffirelli's Shakespearean motion pictures : living monuments / Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin -- Kenneth Branagh : mainstreaming Shakespeare in movie theatres / Sarah Hatchuel -- Remaking Shakespeare in India : Vishal Bhardwaj's films / Poonam Trivedi
"The arrival of the film industry's sound era in the late 1920s quickly consigned silent film to being 'yesterday's thing.' As a result, the cans containing gently crumbling or spontaneously combusting prints of silent films were not a mainstream archiving priority for some time"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xii, 280 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781108431552
9781108421164