Reading Shakespeare In The Movies

Author : Eric S. Mallin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Drama
ISBN : 3030288994

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Reading Shakespeare in the Movies by Eric S. Mallin Pdf

Reading Shakespeare in the Movies: Non-Adaptations and Their Meaning analyzes the unacknowledged, covert presence of Shakespearean themes, structures, characters, and symbolism in selected films. Writers and directors who forge an unconscious, unintentional connection to Shakespeare's work create non-adaptations, cinema that is unexpectedly similar to certain Shakespeare plays while remaining independent as art. These films can illuminate core semantic issues in those plays in ways that direct adaptations cannot. Eric S. Mallin explores how Shakespeare illuminates these movies, analyzing the ways that The Godfather, Memento, Titanic, Birdman, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre take on new life in dialogue with the famous playwright. In addition to challenging our ideas about adaptation, Mallin works to inspire new awareness of the meanings of Shakespearean stories in the contemporary world.

Author : Douglas Brode
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000-04-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199728022

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Shakespeare in the Movies by Douglas Brode Pdf

Shakespeare is now enjoying perhaps his most glorious--certainly his most popular--filmic incarnation. Indeed, the Bard has been splashed across the big screen to great effect in recent adaptations of Hamlet, Henry V, Othello, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard II, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and of course in the hugely successful Shakespeare in Love. Unlike previous studies of Shakespeare's cinematic history, Shakespeare in the Movies proceeds chronologically, in the order that plays were written, allowing the reader to trace the development of Shakespeare as an author--and an auteur--and to see how the changing cultural climate of the Elizabethans flowered into film centuries later. Prolific film writer Douglas Brode provides historical background, production details, contemporary critical reactions, and his own incisive analysis, covering everything from the acting of Marlon Brando, Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton, and Gwyneth Paltrow, to the direction of Orson Welles, Kenneth Branagh, and others. Brode also considers the many films which, though not strict adaptations, contain significant Shakespearean content, such as West Side Story and Kurosawa's Ran and Throne of Blood. Nor does Brode ignore the ignoble treatment the master has sometimes received. We learn, for instance, that the 1929 version of The Taming of the Shrew (which featured the eyebrow-raising writing credit: "By William Shakespeare, with additional dialogue by Sam Taylor"), opens not so trippingly on the tongue--PETRUCHIO: "Howdy Kate." KATE: "Katherine to you, mug." For anyone wishing to cast a backward glance over the poet's film career and to better understand his current big-screen popularity, Shakespeare in the Movies is a delightful and definitive guide.

Author : Nicholas Royle
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783781010

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How To Read Shakespeare by Nicholas Royle Pdf

Shakespeare's legacy is all around us - in our books and our films, in our politics and in our everyday speech. With his words he has formed our world, and his influence has been greater than that of any other writer. So what makes Shakespeare's plays so powerful? Taking a single word from each of the seven most influential plays, Nicholas Royle opens up the delights and complexities of Shakespeare's language for the reader, teaching us to discover his work anew.

Author : Judith R. Buchanan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317874973

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Shakespeare on Film by Judith R. Buchanan Pdf

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. As with other titles from the Inside Film series, the book is illustrated throughout with stills. Each chapter concludes with a list of suggested further reading in the field.

Author : Eric Partridge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134522095

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Shakespeare's Bawdy by Eric Partridge Pdf

This classic work sold with continued success in its original format This new edition will attract review coverage and is appearing in the Autumn Partridge Promotion Foreword by Stanley Wells - General editor of `Oxford Shakespeare'

Author : Lynda E. Boose,Richard Burt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134707522

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Shakespeare, The Movie by Lynda E. Boose,Richard Burt Pdf

Shakespeare, The Movie brings together an impressive line-up of contributors to consider how Shakespeare has been adapted on film, TV, and video, and explores the impact of this popularization on the canonical status of Shakespeare. Taking a fresh look at the Bard an his place in the movies, Shakespeare, The Movie includes a selection of what is presently available in filmic format to the Shakespeare student or scholar, ranging across BBC television productions, filmed theatre productions, and full screen adaptations by Kenneth Branagh and Franco Zeffirelli. Films discussed include: * Amy Heckerling's Clueless * Gus van Sant's My Own Private Idaho * Branagh's Henry V * Baz Luhrman's William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet * John McTiernan's Last Action Hero * Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books * Zeffirelli's Hamlet.

Author : Peter S. Donaldson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135048266

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Shakespearean Films/Shakespearean Directors by Peter S. Donaldson Pdf

Originally published in 1990, this book brought a new rigor and subtlety to the interpretation of film adaptations of Shakespeare. Drawing on traditional literary analysis, psychoanalysis, and current film theory about gender and subjectivity, the author combines close readings of seven films with historical and biographical studies of the directors who made them. Offering substantial readings of Jean-Luc Godard’s controversial deconstructed King Lear and of Liz White’s independent African-American Othello, Donaldson also applies his provocative and contemporary point of view to more familiar films. He reads Olivier’s Henry V in relation to its treatment of sexual difference; Olivier’s Hamlet in part as an expression of the director’s childhood sexual trauma; Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood as an allegory of the relationship between Western and Japanese cinema; and Zeffirelli’s immensely popular Romeo and Juliet in the light of its powerful homoerotic subtext. With striking perspectives on Shakespeare, on the movies as an expressive medium, and on the complex processes of cultural change, this is timeless useful reading for teachers and students of film and literature.

Author : Eric S. Mallin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030288983

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Reading Shakespeare in the Movies by Eric S. Mallin Pdf

Reading Shakespeare in the Movies: Non-Adaptations and Their Meaning analyzes the unacknowledged, covert presence of Shakespearean themes, structures, characters, and symbolism in selected films. Writers and directors who forge an unconscious, unintentional connection to Shakespeare’s work create non-adaptations, cinema that is unexpectedly similar to certain Shakespeare plays while remaining independent as art. These films can illuminate core semantic issues in those plays in ways that direct adaptations cannot. Eric S. Mallin explores how Shakespeare illuminates these movies, analyzing the ways that The Godfather, Memento, Titanic, Birdman, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre take on new life in dialogue with the famous playwright. In addition to challenging our ideas about adaptation, Mallin works to inspire new awareness of the meanings of Shakespearean stories in the contemporary world.

Author : Samuel Daniel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015017680714

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Musophilus by Samuel Daniel Pdf

Author : Kenneth S. Rothwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521543118

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A History of Shakespeare on Screen by Kenneth S. Rothwell Pdf

This edition of A History of Shakespeare on Screen updates the chronology to 2003, with a new chapter on recent films.

Author : William S. Burroughs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0912652462

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Blade Runner by William S. Burroughs Pdf

In this trenchant science-fiction screen treatment written in the mid-1970s, William S. Burroughs outlines the coming medical-care apocalypse: a Dante-esque horror show brought to a boil by a mutated virus and right-wing politics, set in a future all too near. The author of Naked Lunch, Junky, Port of Saints, Cities of the Red Night, Queer, and Exterminator treats this topical story in ultimate terms, with the dry, sophisticated humor he has mastered like no other modern writer.

Author : L. Monique Pittman
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : English drama
ISBN : 1433106647

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Authorizing Shakespeare on Film and Television by L. Monique Pittman Pdf

Authorizing Shakespeare on Film and Television examines recent film and television transformations of William Shakespeare's drama by focusing on the ways in which modern directors acknowledge and respond to the perceived authority of Shakespeare as author, text, cultural icon, theatrical tradition, and academic institution. This study explores two central questions. First, what efforts do directors make to justify their adaptations and assert an interpretive authority of their own? Second, how do those self-authorizing gestures impact upon the construction of gender, class, and ethnic identity within the filmed adaptations of Shakespeare's plays? The chosen films and television series considered take a wide range of approaches to the adaptative process - some faithfully preserve the words of Shakespeare; others jettison the Early Modern language in favor of contemporary idiom; some recreate the geographic and historical specificity of the original plays, and others transplant the plot to fresh settings. The wealth of extra-textual material now available with film and television distribution and the numerous website tie-ins and interviews offer the critic a mine of material for accessing the ways in which directors perceive the looming Shakespearean shadow and justify their projects. Authorizing Shakespeare on Film and Television places these directorial claims alongside the film and television plotting and aesthetic to investigate how such authorizing gestures shape the presentation of gender, class, and ethnicity.

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345809285

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Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood Pdf

Our greatest literary innovator and beloved novelist has reimagined Shakespeare's final, great play of magic and illusion. Entertaining, gripping, emotionally rich and wise, Hag-Seed is an homage to a master, positioned for the fall celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death. "It's got a thunderstorm in it. And revenge. Definitely revenge." Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And brewing revenge. After twelve years, revenge finally arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Here, Felix and his motley crew of inmate actors will put on his Tempest, and snare the traitors who destroyed him. But will it remake Felix as his enemies fall? Margaret Atwood's novel take on Shakespeare's play of enchantment, revenge and second chances leads us on an illusion-ridden journey filled with new surprises and wonders of its own.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X000027625

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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Smithmark Publishers
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0765116928

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The Comedies by William Shakespeare Pdf

"A collection of comedies written by William Shakespeare"--Provided by cataloger