The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare on screen [electronic resource] / edited by Russell Jackson.

Contributor Jackson, Russell, 1949- editor.

ImprintCambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Description1 online resource (xii, 280 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

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Note:Shakespeare and the film industry of the pre-sound era / Judith Buchanan -- Adaptation and the marketing of Shakespeare in classical Hollywood / Deborah Cartmell -- Shakespeare 'live' / Peter Holland -- Shakespearean cinemas/global directions / Mark Thornton Burnett -- The comedies on screen / Ramona Wray -- The environments of tragedy on screen : Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth / Peter Kirwan -- Two tragedies of love : Romeo and Juliet and Othello / Victoria Bladen -- 'Sad stories of the death of kings' - the hollow crown and the Shakespearean history play on screen / Kinga Földváry -- The Roman plays on film / Peter J. Smith -- Screening Shakespearean fantasy and romance in A midsummer night's dream and The tempest / Anthony Guy Patricia -- Questions of racism : The merchant of Venice and Othello / Russell Jackson -- 'A wail in the silence' : feminism, sexuality, and final meanings in King Lear films by Grigorii Kozintsev, Peter Brook, and Akira Kurosawa / Courtney Lehmann -- Violence, tragic and comic, in Coriolanus and The taming of the shrew / Patricia Lennox -- The Shakespeare films of Orson Welles / Emma Smith -- Kurosawa's Shakespeare : mute heavens, merging world or the metaphors of cruelty / Anne-Marie Costantini-Cornčde -- Zeffirelli's Shakespearean motion pictures : living monuments / Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin -- Kenneth Branagh : mainstreaming Shakespeare in movie theatres / Sarah Hatchuel -- Remaking Shakespeare in India : Vishal Bhardwaj's films / Poonam Trivedi.

Note:The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen provides a lively guide to film and television productions adapted from Shakespeare's plays. Offering an essential resource for students of Shakespeare, the companion considers topics such as the early history of Shakespeare films, the development of 'live' broadcasts from theatre to cinema, the influence of promotion and marketing, and the range of versions available in 'world cinema'. Chapters on the contexts, genres and critical issues of Shakespeare on screen offer a diverse range of close analyses, from 'Classical Hollywood' films to the BBC's Hollow Crown series. The companion also features sections on the work of individual directors Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh, and Vishal Bhardwaj, and is supplemented by a guide to further reading and a filmography.

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