Shakespeare and the Moving Image
The Plays on Film and Television
Published on 6. October 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-0-521-43573-4 (ISBN)
Description
Towards the end of the 1980s it looked as if television had displaced cinema as the photographic medium for bringing Shakespeare to the modern audience. In recent years there has been a renaissance of Shakespearian cinema, including Kenneth Branagh's Henry V and Much Ado About Nothing, Franco Zeffirelli's Hamlet, Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books and Christine Edzard's As You Like It. In this volume a range of writers study the best known and most entertaining film, television and video versions of Shakespeare's plays. Particular attention is given to the work of Olivier, Zeffirelli and Kurosawa, and to the BBC Television series. In addition the volume includes a survey of previous scholarship and an invaluable filmography.
Reviews / Votes
"Given the recent explosion of interest in Shakespeare on film, this strong collection (which includes Graham Holderness and Christopher McCullough's useful compendium of Shakespeare on film) offers an excellent and timely overview." SEL "Anthony Davies and Stanley Wells have assembled something like a compact encyclopedia of Shakepeare on film and video. ...the critical review and bibliography in the introduction as well as individual articles make the volume the most useful source book for this area up to 1994." R. Thomas Simone, Shakespeare QuarterlyMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
1 Tables, unspecified; 22 Halftones, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
410 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-43573-4 (9780521435734)
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Content
1. Shakespeare on film and television: a retrospect Anthony Davies; 2. Shakespeare on the screen: a selective filmography Graham Holderness and Christopher McCullough; 3. Two-dimensional Shakespeare: King Lear on film Peter Holland; 4. Verbal-visual, verbal-pictorial or textual-televisual? Reflections on the BBC Shakespeare series Michele Willems; 5. Two types of television Shakespeare Neil Taylor; 6. Shakespeare's comedies on film Russell Jackson; 7. The English history play on screen Michael Manheim; 8. A world elsewhere: the Roman plays on film and television Samuel Crowl; 9. Zeffirelli's Shakespeare Ace G. Pilkinton; 10. The films of Hamlet Neil Taylor; 11. Filming Othello Anthony Davies; 12. Representing King Lear on screen: from metatheatre to `metacinema' Kenneth S. Rothwell; 13. Kurosawa's Shakespeare films: Throne of Blood, The Bad Sleep Well, and Ran Robert Hapgood; 14. Macbeth on film: politics E. Pearlman.