Shakespeare and the English-speaking Cinema (Paperback)

Shakespeare and the English-speaking Cinema is a lively, authoritative, and innovative overview of the ways in which Shakespeare's plays have been adapted for cinema. Organised by topics rather than chronology, it offers detailed commentary on significant films, including both 'mainstream' and 'canonical' works by such directors as Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Franco Zeffirelli, and Kenneth Branagh, and such ground-breaking movies as Derek Jarman's The Tempest, Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet and Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books. Chapters on the location of films in place and time, the effect of this on characterisation, and issues of gender and political power are followed by a discussion of work that goes 'beyond Shakespeare. A filmography and suggestions for further reading complete this stimulating, fresh, and accessible account of an important aspect of Shakespeare studies.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Oxford Shakespeare Topics
Release date:	September 2014
Authors:	Russell Jackson (Allardyce Nicoll Professor of Drama)
Dimensions:	203 x 135 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-965946-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare studies & criticism
LSN:	0-19-965946-X
Barcode:	9780199659463

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