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Record Nr.

UNINA9910143287903321

Autore

Henderson Diana

Titolo

A Concise Companion To Shakespeare On Screen [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2007

ISBN

1-281-21460-4

9786611214609

0-470-75765-5

1-4051-4888-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Collana

Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture A concise companion to Shakespeare on screen

Disciplina

791.436

Soggetti

English drama

English drama - Film and video adaptations

Film adaptations

Shakespeare, William

Fine Arts

Literature

English drama - History and criticism

English

Languages & Literatures

English Literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Bibliographical Note; Chronology; INTRODUCTION Through a Camera, Darkly Diana E. Henderson; Chapter 1 AUTHORSHIP Getting Back to Shakespeare: Whose Film is it Anyway? Elsie Walker; Chapter 2 CINEMA STUDIES "Thou Dost Usurp Authority": Beerbohm Tree, Reinhardt, Olivier, Welles, and the Politics of Adapting Shakespeare Anthony R. Guneratne; Chapter 3 THEATRICALITY Stage, Screen, and Nation: Hamlet and the Space of History Robert Shaughnessy; Chapter 4 THE ARTISTIC PROCESS Learning from Campbell Scott's Hamlet Diana E. Henderson



Chapter 5 CINEMATIC PERFORMANCE Spectacular Bodies: Acting +Cinema +Shakespeare Barbara HodgdonChapter 6 GENDER STUDIES Shakespeare, Sex, and Violence: Negotiating Masculinities in Branagh's Henry V and Taymor's Titus Pascale Aebischer; Chapter 7 GLOBALIZATION Figuring the Global/ Historical in Filmic Shakespearean Tragedy Mark Thornton Burnett; Chapter 8 CROSS-CULTURAL INTERPRETATION Reading Kurosawa Reading Shakespeare Anthony Daw

Sommario/riassunto

Organized around topics such as authorship and collaboration, theatricality, sex and violence, globalization, and history. This Concise Companion offers readers a variety of routes into Shakespeare on screen and supports further study of the subject through the inclusion of a bibliography, a chronological chart, and a thorough index.