Cinematic Hamlet

Author : Patrick J. Cook
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780821419441

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Cinematic Hamlet by Patrick J. Cook Pdf

Cinematic Hamlet contains the first scene-by-scene analysis of four outstanding film adaptations by Laurence Olivier, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh, and Michael Almereyda of Hamlet. Indispensable for anyone wishing to understand how these directors rework Shakespeare into the powerful medium of film.

Author : Patrick J. Cook
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780821443651

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Cinematic Hamlet by Patrick J. Cook Pdf

Hamlet has inspired four outstanding film adaptations that continue to delight a wide and varied audience and to offer provocative new interpretations of Shakespeare’s most popular play. Cinematic Hamlet contains the first scene-by-scene analysis of the methods used by Laurence Olivier, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh, and Michael Almereyda to translate Hamlet into highly distinctive and remarkably effective films. Applying recent developments in neuroscience and psychology, Patrick J. Cook argues that film is a medium deploying an abundance of devices whose task it is to direct attention away from the film’s viewing processes and toward the object represented. Through careful analysis of each film’s devices, he explores the ways in which four brilliant directors rework the play into a radically different medium, engaging the viewer through powerful instinctive drives and creating audiovisual vehicles that support and complement Shakespeare’s words and story. Cinematic Hamlet will prove to be indispensable for anyone wishing to understand how these films rework Shakespeare into the powerful medium of film.

Author : Mark Thornton Burnett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107135505

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'Hamlet' and World Cinema by Mark Thornton Burnett Pdf

Reveals a rich cinematic history, discussing Hamlet films from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.

Author : Stephen M. Buhler
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791451402

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Shakespeare in the Cinema by Stephen M. Buhler Pdf

A comprehensive look at film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays.

Author : Michael A. Anderegg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0742510921

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Cinematic Shakespeare by Michael A. Anderegg Pdf

Michael Anderegg investigates how Shakespeare films constitute an exciting & ever-changing film genre. He looks closely at films by Olivier, Welles, & Branagh, as well as postmodern Shakespeares & multiple adaptations over the years of 'Romeo and Juliet'.

Author : Anthony Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521399130

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Filming Shakespeare's Plays by Anthony Davies Pdf

Shakespeare's plays provide wonderfully challenging material for the film maker. While acknowledging that dramatic experiences for theatre and cinema audiences are significantly different, this book reveals some of the special qualities of cinema's dramatic language in the film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays by four directors - Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa - each of whom has a distinctly different approach to a film representation. Davies begins his study with a comparison of theatrical and cinematic space showing that the dramatic resources of cinema are essentially spatial. The central chapters focus on Laurence Olivier's Henry V, Hamlet and Richard III; Orson Welles' Macbeth, Othello and Chimes at Midnight; Peter Brook's King Lear and Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood. Davies discusses the dramatic problems posed by the source plays for these films for the film maker and he examines how these films influenced later theatrical stagings. He concludes with an examination of the demands that distinguish the work of the Shakespearean stage actor from that of his counterpart in film.

Author : Bernice W. Kliman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015014331832

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Hamlet by Bernice W. Kliman Pdf

Author : Maurice Hindle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137531728

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Shakespeare on Film by Maurice Hindle Pdf

An approachable guide to Shakespeare on film, this book establishes the differences between stage and screen. It covers the history of Shakespeare on the screen since 1899, and discusses various modes and conventions of adaptations. Thoroughly updated to include the most recent films, for instance Joss Whedon's 2013 Much Ado About Nothing, it also explores the latest technology, such as DVD and Blu-ray, as well as live stage-to-screen productions. It also includes an exclusive interview with filmmaker John Wyver, discussing his own adaptations for the small screen.

Author : Keith Harrison
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319597430

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Shakespeare, Bakhtin, and Film by Keith Harrison Pdf

This book explores how Bakhtin’s ideas can illuminate the compelling but uneasy fusion of Shakespeare and cinema. With a wide variety of tones, languages, cultural orientations, and thematic concerns, film directors have updated, translated, transposed, fragmented, parodied, and geographically re-situated Shakespeare. Keith Harrison illustrates how Bakhtin’s interlinked writings in various fields can fruitfully be applied to an understanding of how the ongoing responsiveness of filmmakers to Shakespeare’s historically remote words can shape self-expressive acts of co-authoring in another medium. Through the use of such Bakhtinian concepts as the chronotope, heteroglossia, the carnivalesque, and polyphony, Harrison details how filmmakers—faithful to their specific cultures, genders, geographies, and historical moments—dialogically locate their particularity through Shakespeare’s presence.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Start Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9798880905256

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Hamlet by William Shakespeare Pdf

The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark is widely considered Shakespeare's greatest play. Hamlet is confronted by the ghost of his father who tells him that Hamlet's uncle and mother conspired to poison him. Knowing that his uncle who now sits upon the throne and his mother who has married his uncle and is now his queen have murdered his father Hamlet sets out to avenge his father's death and set things to right. But his plan could destroy the entire realm.To be or not to be-that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortuneOr to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die-to sleep-No more; and by a sleep to say we endThe heartache and the thousand natural shocks

Author : Samuel Crowl
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781472538918

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Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare's Hamlet by Samuel Crowl Pdf

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

Author : Pradipta Mukherjee
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527573772

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The Fluid Frame in Cinema by Pradipta Mukherjee Pdf

This book is a passionate rendezvous with cinema, the most collaborative of art forms. The essays here explore the possibilities offered by a close reading of cinema that keeps cultural contexts and their socio-historical roots firmly in sight. This collection does not consider the “frame”, that oft-referenced basic unit of vision in films, as a limiting structure. Rather, it brings into purview what is left out. Divided into three sections, the essays look firstly at Indian cinema, both Bollywood and regional films, tracing the journey of Indian cinema from the periphery to the center. The second section focuses on Adaptation Studies and takes an unorthodox look at classic adaptations of literature. The final section is a reappraisal of directors like Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick. The essays propose that, even though the film as an artwork does not change fundamentally over time, it still strikes a contemporary critical gaze differently.

Author : S. Ryle
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137332066

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Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire by S. Ryle Pdf

Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire explores the desires and the futures of Shakespeare's language and cinematographic adaptations of Shakespeare. Tracing ways that film offers us a rich new understanding of Shakespeare, it highlights issues such as media technology, mourning, loss, the voice, narrative territories and flows, sexuality and gender.

Author : Russell Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521639751

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film by Russell Jackson Pdf

Film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays are increasingly popular and now figure prominently in the study of his work and its reception. This lively Companion is a collection of critical and historical essays on the films adapted from, and inspired by, Shakespeare's plays. An international team of leading scholars discuss Shakespearean films from a variety of perspectives: as works of art in their own right; as products of the international movie industry; in terms of cinematic and theatrical genres; and as the work of particular directors from Laurence Olivier and Orson Welles to Franco Zeffirelli and Kenneth Branagh. They also consider specific issues such as the portrayal of Shakespeare's women and the supernatural. The emphasis is on feature films for cinema, rather than television, with strong coverage of Hamlet, Richard III, Macbeth, King Lear and Romeo and Juliet. A guide to further reading and a useful filmography are also provided.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999-05-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521646359

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Hamlet by William Shakespeare Pdf

The story of Hamlet in production, from Burbage at the Globe to Branagh on film.