Screen Adaptations: The Tempest
A Close Study of the Relationship Between Text and Film
1st Edition
Published on 26. September 2014
208 pages
978-1-4081-4966-9 (ISBN)
Description
Literature and film studies students will find plenty of material
to support their courses and essay writing on how the film versions
provide different readings of the original text.
Focussing on numerous film versions, from Percy Stow's 1908 adaptation to Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books,
the book discusses: the literary text in its historical context, key
themes and dominant readings of the text, how the text is adapted for
screen and how adaptations have changed our reading of the original
text. There are numerous excerpts from the literary text, screenplays
and shooting scripts, with suggestions for comparison. The book also
features quotations from authors, screenwriters, directors, critics and
others linked with the chosen film and text.
More details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4081-4966-9 (9781408149669)
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Book
05/2008
Methuen Drama
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Person
Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at University of Sheffield
Hallam. She has published numerous works on Shakespeare, her most
recent work, Beginning Shakespeare by Manchester University Press 2005 and has written on film adaptations including Screening the Gothic. She is the Senior Editor of the online journal, Early Modern Literary Studies.
Hallam. She has published numerous works on Shakespeare, her most
recent work, Beginning Shakespeare by Manchester University Press 2005 and has written on film adaptations including Screening the Gothic. She is the Senior Editor of the online journal, Early Modern Literary Studies.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A note on texts
- Filmography and credits for key films
- Part One: Literary contexts
- The play in its time
- The play today
- Adaptations of The Tempest- a brief overview
- Part Two: From text to screen
- Introduction - setting the scene
- Forbidden Planet(dir. Fred Wilcox, 1956)
- The Tempest(dir. Derek Jarman, 1979)
- Prospero's Books (dir. Peter Greenaway, 1991)
- Conclusion
- Part Three: Critical responses and the afterlife of text and film
- Introduction
- Jarman's The Tempest
- Prospero's Books
- Forbidden Planet
- Afterlife
- Works cited
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- J
- K
- L
- M
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- P
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