Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare's Hamlet - The Relationship between Text and Film (Hardcover, New)

Hamlet is the most often produced play in the western literary canon, and a fertile global source for film adaptation. Samuel Crowl, a noted scholar of Shakespeare on film, unpacks the process of adapting from text to screen through concentrating on two sharply contrasting film versions of Hamlet by Laurence Olivier (1948) and Kenneth Branagh (1996). The films' socio-political contexts are explored, and the importance of their screenplay, film score, setting, cinematography and editing examined. Offering an analysis of two of the most important figures in the history of film adaptations of Shakespeare, this study seeks to understand a variety of cinematic approaches to translating Shakespeare's "words, words, words" into film's particular grammar and rhetoric

General

Imprint:	The Arden Shakespeare
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Screen Adaptations
Release date:	2014
First published:	March 2014
Authors:	Samuel Crowl
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	176
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-4725-3891-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare studies & criticism
LSN:	1-4725-3891-9
Barcode:	9781472538918

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