Shakespeare and the English-speaking Cinema is a lively, authoritative, and innovative overview of the ways in which Shakespeare's plays have been adapted for cinema. Organised by topics rather than chronology, it offers detailed commentary on significant films, including both 'mainstream' and 'canonical' works by such directors as Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Franco Zeffirelli, and Kenneth Branagh, and such ground-breaking movies as Derek Jarman's The Tempest, Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet and Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books. Chapters on the location of films in place and time, the effect of this on characterisation, and issues of gender and political power are followed by a discussion of work that goes 'beyond Shakespeare. A filmography and suggestions for further reading complete this stimulating, fresh, and accessible account of an important aspect of Shakespeare studies.
| ISBN: | 9780199659470 |
| Publication date: | 18th September 2014 |
| Author: | Russell Allardyce Nicoll Professor of Drama, Allardyce Nicoll Professor of Drama, University of Birmingham Jackson |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 204 pages |
| Series: | Oxford Shakespeare Topics |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: plays and playwrights Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Films, cinema |