Filming Shakespeare, from Metatheatre to Metacinema

by Agnieszka Rasmus

Overview

Filming Shakespeare, from Metatheatre to Metacinema is the first book-length study of Shakespeare film adaptations concerned with metacinematic criticism. The volume offers a thoroughly researched and extensive survey of reflexivity in Shakespeare on screen, providing the reader with comprehensive and easily readable case studies of major and obscure productions from silent era to the present day. Topics include the ontology of the photographic image, the silent era, cinema as death, Hollywood, counter-cinema, ideology, film genre, and theatrical vs. cinematic illusion. Considering Shakespeare criticism as well as film theory and history, the essays are aimed at students, teachers, scholars, and enthusiasts of Shakespeare and film.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631571415
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	12/14/2007
Pages:	194
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

The Author: Agnieszka Rasmus is a Senior Lecturer in Literature and Film at the Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 Poetry, University of Lodz (Poland).

Table of Contents

Contents: Shakespeare – Adaptation – Metatheatre – Metacinema – Reflexivity – Silent Film – Hollywood – Counter-Cinema – Theatrical vs. Cinematic Space – Illusion – Alienation – Spectator – Film Genre – Ideology – Cinema as Death – Soliloquies – Asides – Direct Address – Film-within-the-Film – Framing Devices.