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100 Shakespeare Films

Daniel Rosenthal
100 Shakespeare Films Book PDF

Author : Daniel Rosenthal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838714086

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100 Shakespeare Films by Daniel Rosenthal Pdf

From Oscar-winning British classics to Hollywood musicals and Westerns, from Soviet epics to Bollywood thrillers, Shakespeare has inspired an almost infinite variety of films. Directors as diverse as Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh, Baz Luhrmann and Julie Taymor have transferred Shakespeare's plays from stage to screen with unforgettable results. Spanning a century of cinema, from a silent short of 'The Tempest' (1907) to Kenneth Branagh's 'As You Like It' (2006), Daniel Rosenthal's up-to-date selection takes in the most important, inventive and unusual Shakespeare films ever made. Half are British and American productions that retain Shakespeare's language, including key works such as Olivier's 'Henry V' and 'Hamlet', Welles' 'Othello' and 'Chimes at Midnight', Branagh's 'Henry V' and 'Hamlet', Luhrmann's 'Romeo + Juliet' and Taymor's 'Titus'. Alongside these original-text films are more than 30 genre adaptations: titles that aim for a wider audience by using modernized dialogue and settings and customizing Shakespeare's plots and characters, transforming 'Macbeth' into a pistol-packing gangster ('Joe Macbeth' and 'Maqbool') or reimagining 'Othello' as a jazz musician ('All Night Long'). There are Shakesepeare-based Westerns ('Broken Lance', 'King of Texas'), musicals ('West Side Story', 'Kiss Me Kate'), high-school comedies ('10 Things I Hate About You', 'She's the Man'), even a sci-fi adventure ('Forbidden Planet'). There are also films dominated by the performance of a Shakespearean play ('In the Bleak Midwinter', 'Shakespeare in Love'). Rosenthal emphasises the global nature of Shakespearean cinema, with entries on more than 20 foreign-language titles, including Kurosawa's 'Throne of Blood and Ran', Grigori Kozintsev's 'Russian Hamlet' and 'King Lear', and little-known features from as far afield as 'Madagascar' and 'Venezuela', some never released in Britain or the US. He considers the films' production and box-office history and examines the film-makers' key interpretive decisions in comparison to their Shakespearean sources, focusing on cinematography, landscape, music, performance, production design, textual alterations and omissions. As cinema plays an increasingly important role in the study of Shakespeare at schools and universities, this is a wide-ranging, entertaining and accessible guide for Shakespeare teachers, students and enthusiasts.

Shakespeare on Film

Judith R. Buchanan
Shakespeare on Film Book PDF

Author : Judith R. Buchanan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317874973

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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.

Shakespeare Films

Peter E.S. Babiak
Shakespeare Films Book PDF

Author : Peter E.S. Babiak
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476623528

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Shakespeare Films by Peter E.S. Babiak Pdf

This study reexamines the recognized "canon" of films based on Shakespeare's plays, and argues that it should be broadened by breaking with two unnecessary standards: the characterization of the director as "auteur" of a play's screen adaptation, and the convention of excluding films with contemporary language or modern or alternative settings or which use the play as a subtext. The emphasis is shifted from the director's contribution to the film's social, cultural and historical contexts. The work of the auteurs is reevaluated within present-day contexts, preserving the established canon while proposing new criteria for inclusion.

Kozintsev's Shakespeare Films

Tiffany Ann Conroy Moore
Kozintsev s Shakespeare Films Book PDF

Author : Tiffany Ann Conroy Moore
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786471355

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Kozintsev's Shakespeare Films by Tiffany Ann Conroy Moore Pdf

This book is a study of Grigory Kozintsev's two cinematic Shakespeare adaptations, Hamlet (Gamlet, 1964), and King Lear (Korol Lir, 1970). The films are considered in relation to the historical, artistic and cultural contexts in which they appear, and in relation to the contributions of Dmitri Shostakovich, who wrote the films' scores; and Boris Pasternak, whose translations Kozintsev used. The films are analyzed respective to their place in the translation and performance history of Hamlet and King Lear from their first appearances in Tsarist Russian arts and letters. In particular, this study is concerned with the ways in which these plays have been used as a means to critique the government and the country's problems in an age in which official censorship was commonplace. Kozintsev's films (as well as his theatrical productions of Hamlet and Lear) continue along this trajectory of protest by providing a vehicle for him and his collaborators to address the oppression, violence and corruption of Soviet society. It was just this sort of covert political protest that finally effected the dissolution and fall of the USSR.

Shakespeare, Film Studies, and the Visual Cultures of Modernity

A. Guneratne
Shakespeare Film Studies and the Visual Cultures of Modernity Book PDF

Author : A. Guneratne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230613737

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Shakespeare, Film Studies, and the Visual Cultures of Modernity by A. Guneratne Pdf

This book is the first in-depth cultural history of cinema's polyvalent and often contradictory appropriations of Shakespearean drama and performance traditions. The author argues that these adapatations have helped shape multiple aspects of film, from cinematic style to genre and narrative construction.

Recontextualizing Indian Shakespeare Cinema in the West

Varsha Panjwani,Koel Chatterjee
Recontextualizing Indian Shakespeare Cinema in the West Book PDF

Author : Varsha Panjwani,Koel Chatterjee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350168664

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Recontextualizing Indian Shakespeare Cinema in the West by Varsha Panjwani,Koel Chatterjee Pdf

Featuring case studies, essays, and conversation pieces by scholars and practitioners, this volume explores how Indian cinematic adaptations outside the geopolitical and cultural boundaries of India are revitalizing the broader landscape of Shakespeare research, performance, and pedagogy. Chapters in this volume address practical and thematic concerns and opportunities that are specific to studying Indian cinematic Shakespeares in the West. For instance, how have intercultural encounters between Indian Shakespeare films and American students inspired new pedagogic methodologies? How has the presence and popularity of Indian Shakespeare films affected policy change at British cultural institutions? How can disagreement between eastern and western perspectives on the politics of a Shakespeare film become the site for productive cross-cultural dialogue? This is the first book to explore such complex interactions between Indian Shakespeare films and Western audiences to contribute to the assessment of the new networks that have emerged as a result of Global Shakespeare studies and practices. The volume argues that by tracking critical currents from India towards the West new insights are afforded on the wider field of Shakespeare Studies - including feminist Shakespeares, translation in Shakespeare, or the study of music in Shakespeare - and are shaping debates on the ownership and meaning of Shakespeare itself. Contributing to the current studies in Global Shakespeare, this book marks a discursive shift in the way Shakespeare on Indian screen is predominantly theorised and offers an alternative methodology for examining non-Anglophone cinematic Shakespeares as a whole.

Queering the Shakespeare Film

Anthony Guy Patricia
Queering the Shakespeare Film Book PDF

Author : Anthony Guy Patricia
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474237048

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Queering the Shakespeare Film by Anthony Guy Patricia Pdf

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. A range of mainstream and independent English language film productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Twelfth Night, and The Merchant of Venice take centre stage in Queering the Shakespeare Film. This study critiques the various representations of the queer – broadly understood as that which is at odds with what has been deemed to be the normal, the legitimate, and the dominant, particularly – but not exclusively – as regards sexual matters, in the Shakespeare film. The movies chosen for analysis correspond deliberately with those Shakespeare plays that, as written texts, have been subjected to a great deal of productive study in a queer context since the beginnings of queer theory in the early 1990s. Thus the book extends the ongoing queer discussion of these written texts to their counterpart cinematic texts. Queering the Shakespeare Film is a much-needed alternative and complementary critical history of the Shakespeare film genre.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film

Russell Jackson
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film Book PDF

Author : Russell Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,5 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.

Cinematic Shakespeare

Michael A. Anderegg
Cinematic Shakespeare Book PDF

Author : Michael A. Anderegg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,8 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'.

Shakespearean Films/Shakespearean Directors

Peter S. Donaldson
Shakespearean Films Shakespearean Directors Book PDF

Author : Peter S. Donaldson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,5 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.

Shakespeare, The Movie

Lynda E. Boose,Richard Burt
Shakespeare The Movie Book PDF

Author : Lynda E. Boose,Richard Burt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,7 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.

Shakespeare on Film

Judith R. Buchanan
Shakespeare on Film Book PDF

Author : Judith R. Buchanan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317874966

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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.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film

Russell Jackson
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film Book PDF

Author : Russell Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521685016

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film by Russell Jackson Pdf

This companion is a collection of critical and historical essays on the films adapted from, and inspired by, Shakespeare's plays. The emphasis is on feature films for cinema with strong coverage Hamlet, Richard III, Macbeth, King Lear and Romeo and Juliet.

Shakespeare Films

Peter E.S. Babiak
Shakespeare Films Book PDF

Author : Peter E.S. Babiak
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476662541

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Shakespeare Films by Peter E.S. Babiak Pdf

This study reexamines the recognized "canon" of films based on Shakespeare's plays, and argues that it should be broadened by breaking with two unnecessary standards: the characterization of the director as "auteur" of a play's screen adaptation, and the convention of excluding films with contemporary language or modern or alternative settings or which use the play as a subtext. The emphasis is shifted from the director's contribution to the film's social, cultural and historical contexts. The work of the auteurs is reevaluated within present-day contexts, preserving the established canon while proposing new criteria for inclusion.

Shakespeare and Film

Samuel Crowl
Shakespeare and Film Book PDF

Author : Samuel Crowl
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0393927652

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Shakespeare and Film by Samuel Crowl Pdf

Written with verve and insight by an award-winning teacher and scholar, Shakespeare and Film: A Norton Guide is the ideal introduction to film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays from the silent era tot the present.