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 ...
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