Screen Adaptations: Romeo and Juliet
A Close Study of the Relationship Between Text and Film
1st Edition
Published on 26. September 2014
304 pages
978-1-4081-9876-6 (ISBN)
Description
The Screen Adaptations series provides an in-depth look at how classic pieces of literature have been adapted for screen. It assesses the ways in which alternative screen interpretations offer up different readings of the original text as well as the methodologies and approaches of filmmakers.
Each title in the series collects together a vast array of study material, critical insight and thought-provoking comparisons - from literary context to the afterlife of the screen versions.
Shakespeare on Film is a huge area of study and Romeo and Juliet is one of his most popular plays with many teachers using film versions as a way of approaching the text. Focussing in the main on West Side Story and Baz Lurhmann's Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, this is a unique and comprehensive insight into the adaptation process providing a vital study aid for students.
Each title in the series collects together a vast array of study material, critical insight and thought-provoking comparisons - from literary context to the afterlife of the screen versions.
Shakespeare on Film is a huge area of study and Romeo and Juliet is one of his most popular plays with many teachers using film versions as a way of approaching the text. Focussing in the main on West Side Story and Baz Lurhmann's Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, this is a unique and comprehensive insight into the adaptation process providing a vital study aid for students.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4081-9876-6 (9781408198766)
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Courtney Lehmann
Screen Adaptations: Romeo and Juliet
A close study of the relationship between text and film
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01/2011
Methuen Drama
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Courtney Lehmann is the Tully Knoles Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English and Film Studies and the Director of the Humanities Scholars Program at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. Notable works include: What "ish" an Auteur?: Re-conceptualizing Shakespearean Authorship from the Bard to Branagh (1998), Shakespeare Remains: Theater to Film, Early Modern to Postmodern (2002), Spectacular Shakespeare: Critical Theory and Popular Cinema (2002) and The Reel Shakespeare: Alternative Cinema and Theory.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A note on the texts
- Timeline: cinematic adaptations of Romeo and Juliet
- Part One: Literary contexts
- A tale of adaptation
- The 'bad', the 'good', and the ugly: the complex text(s) of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
- 'What more in the name of love?' Issues for adaptation
- Part Two: From text to screen
- A brief history of Romeo and Juliet on screen
- Now showing: West Side Story
- Shakespeare with a view: Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet
- William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: A cinematic detour through the play's textual origins
- Part Three: Critical responses and the afterlife of the play's adaptations
- West Side success
- Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet: then and now
- Romeo + Juliet takes the 'A' train
- Afterlives: the never-ending story
- Select bibliography
- Index
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