Cinematic Hamlet : the films of Olivier, Zeffirelli, Branagh, and Almereyda / Patrick J. Cook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cook, Patrick J., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hamlet (Legendary character)--Drama.

Hamlet (Legendary character).

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet.

Shakespeare, William.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hamlet has inspired four outstanding film adaptations that continue to delighta wide and varied audience and to offer provocative new interpretationsof Shakespeare's most popular play. Cinematic Hamlet contains the first scene-by-scene analysis of the methods used by Laurence Olivier, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh, and Michael Almereyda to translate Hamlet into highly distinctive and remarkably effective films. Applying recent developments in neuroscience and psychology,Patrick J. Cook argues that film is a medium deploying an abundance of devices whose task it is to direct attention aw

Contents:

Introduction

Laurence Olivier's Hamlet: the triumph of the cinesthetic

Franco zeffirelli's Hamlet: modernizing medievalism

Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet: the challenges of the full-text screenplay

Michael Almereyda's Hamlet: uncanny imagination.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.

ISBN:

9780821443651

0821443658

OCLC:

710814278