The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare on screen / edited by Russell Jackson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cambridge University Press, publisher.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Jackson, Russell, 1949- editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film adaptations.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Film adaptations--History and criticism.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Television adaptations--History and criticism.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Television adaptations.

Physical Description:

xii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"The arrival of the film industry's sound era in the late 1920s quickly consigned silent film to being 'yesterday's thing.' As a result, the cans containing gently crumbling or spontaneously combusting prints of silent films were not a mainstream archiving priority for some time"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I ADAPTATION AND ITS CONTEXTS

1. Shakespeare and the Film Industry of the Pre-Sound Era / Judith Buchanan

2. Adaptation and the Marketing of Shakespeare in Classical Hollywood / Deborah Cartmell

3. Shakespeare `Live' / Peter Holland

4. Shakespearean Cinemas/Global Directions / Mark Thornton Burnett

pt. II GENRES AND PLAYS

5. The Comedies / Ramona Wray

6. The Environments of Tragedy on Screen: Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth / Peter Kirwan

7. Two Tragedies of Love: Romeo and Juliet and Othello / Victoria Bladen

8. `Sad Stories of the Death of Kings': The Hollow Crown and the Shakespearean History Play on Screen / Kinga Foldvary

9. The Roman Plays on Film / Peter J. Smith

10. Screening Shakespearean Fantasy and Romance in A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest / Anthony Guy Patricia

pt. III CRITICAL ISSUES

11. Questions of Racism: The Merchant of Venice and Othello / Russell Jackson

12. `A Wail in the Silence': Feminism, Sexuality and Final Meanings in King Lear Films by Grigori Kozintsev, Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa / Courtney Lehmann

13. Violence, Tragic and Comic, in Coriolanus and The Taming of the Shrew / Patricia Lennox

pt. IV DIRECTORS

14. The Shakespeare Films of Orson Welles / Emma Smith

15. Kurosawa's Shakespeare: Mute Heavens, Merging Worlds or the Metaphors of Cruelty / Anne-Marie Costantini-Cornede

16. Zeffirelli's Shakespearean Motion Pictures: Living Monuments / Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin

17. Kenneth Branagh: Mainstreaming Shakespeare in Movie Theatres / Sarah Hatchuel

18. Remaking Shakespeare in India: Vishal Bhardwaj's Films / Poonam Trivedi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Cambridge companion to Shakespeare on screen

ISBN:

9781108421164

1108421164

9781108431552

1108431550

OCLC:

1152391818

Publisher Number:

99992658353