Shakespeare on Film (Paperback, New)

From the earliest days of the cinema to the present, Shakespeare has offered a tempting bank of source material than the film industry has been happy to plunder. Shakespeare on Film deftly examines an extensive range of films that have emerged from the curious union of an iconic dramatist with a medium of mass appeal. The many films Buchanan studies are shown to be telling indicators of trends in Shakespearean performance interpretation, illuminating markers of developments in the film industry and culturally revealing about broader influences in the world beyond the movie theatre. ' How did Shakespeare make the movies? How did the movies make Shakespeare? And how do the movies keep remaking him? Shakespeare on Film answers these questions. It looks at Shakespeare on the silent screen; in the art-house and the multiplex; from Asta Nielsen to Julie Taymor; in the hands of auteurs like Kurosawa, Jarman, Branagh ...

General

Imprint:	Longman
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Inside Film
Release date:	September 2005
First published:	2006
Authors:	Judith R. Buchanan
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	304
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-582-43716-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General
LSN:	0-582-43716-4
Barcode:	9780582437166

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