Shakespeare's Hamlet : the relationship between text and film / Samuel Crowl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crowl, Samuel.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Screen adaptations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Film adaptations.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet.

Genre:

Film adaptations.

Physical Description:

xviii, 154 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, [2014]

Summary:

"Hamlet is the most often produced play in the western literary canon, and a fertile global source for film adaptation. Samuel Crowl, a noted scholar of Shakespeare on film, unpacks the process of adapting from text to screen through concentrating on two sharply contrasting film versions of Hamlet by Laurence Olivier (1948) and Kenneth Branagh (1996). The films' socio-political contexts are explored, and the importance of their screenplay, film score, setting, cinematography and editing examined. Offering an analysis of two of the most important figures in the history of film adaptations of Shakespeare, this study seeks to understand a variety of cinematic approaches to translating Shakespeare's "words, words, words" into film's particular grammar and rhetoric"-- Provided by publisher.

"A study of how Hamlet has been adapted for film and TV, with a focus on the classic film by Olivier and Branagh"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Acknowledgements Preface 1 Literary contexts 2 Laurence Olivier's Hamlet: from text to screen 3 Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet: from text to screen 4 Critical response and the afterlife of text and film Bibliography Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

ISBN:

9781472538918

1472538919

9781408129555

1408129558

OCLC:

853493938

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