Shakespeare's King Lear : the relationship between text and film / Yvonne Griggs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griggs, Yvonne, author.

Series:

Screen adaptations.

Screen adaptations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Methuen Drama, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This close study of film adaptations of King Lear looks at several different versions (mainstream, art-house and cinematic 'offshoots'') and 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 many references to the literary text and screenplays and the book also features quotations from directors and critics. There is plenty of discursive material here to support student work on both film and literature courses.

Contents:

Part One: Literary contexts

'The wheel is come full circle': origins and new directions

Recycled narratives

'This great stage of fools': King Lear in performance

Dominant readings of King Lear: a tale of redemption or fall?

The adaptation debate

Part Two: Production contexts

From play text to silver screen

Screen Lears: an overview

The changing face of King Lear

New ways of reading screen Lears

Part Three: Readings of key versions

From the canon to Hollywood

East meets West: King Lear and the canon. Peter Brook's King Lear (1971): ' a Hollywood showman's nightmare'

On the road: reclaiming Kozinstev's Korol Lir (1970)

Chaos on the Western frontier: Akira Kurosawa's Ran (1985)

King Lear and genre cinema

King Lear as western elegy: Ed Dmytryk's Broken Lance (1954)

King Lear and the urban gangster movie: the 'tragic' gangster

Displacing the patriarchal family: Joseph Mankiewicz's House of Strangers (1949)

Mafia father figures: Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather trilogy (1972, 1974, 1990)

Gangster Lear as morality tale: Don Boyd's My Kingdom (2001)

King Lear as melodrama: Jocelyn Moorhouse's A Thousand Acres (1997)

King Lear goes art house: acts of reconstruction

'Meantime we shall express our darker purpose': Jean-Luc Godard's King Lear (1987)

'Radical art phalanx' versus 'a clever flag of PR convenience': Kristian Levring's The King is Alive (2000)

Part 4: The afterlife ..

The afterlife of King Lear: recent developments in the visual medium

Adaptation: the debate goes on.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-209) and index.

Includes filmography.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781408144015

1408144018

9781408144008

140814400X

OCLC:

891396706