Shakespeare on Film: Such Things as Dreams Are Made Of

by Carolyn Jess-Cooke

Overview

Since the birth of Shakespearean cinema in 1899, there have been close to 500 film adaptations of the Bard's work in which he has been taken to outer space, downtown Mumbai, and feudal Japan. Exploring this astonishing array from early cinema to the present, Shakespeare on Film: Such Things as Dreams are Made of analyzes Shakespearean cinema in four major contexts: performance, adaptation, film style, and popularization, interpreting his unique ability to penetrate cultures, mindsets, and languages across the world. The volume reveals Shakespeare's continuing currency in contemporary culture and critically examines the dialogues between cultures, mediums, and historical periods.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781905674145
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	09/20/2007
Series:	Short Cuts
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Carolyn Jess-Cooke is lecturer in film studies at the University of Sunderland.

What People are Saying About This

Richard Vela

Those who know Shakespeare, films and theory, will marvel at this wonderfully intelligent, concise and helpful book. Those who are beginning will be drawn in by its clarity and its abundant insights.

Professor Richard Vela

Those who know Shakespeare, films and theory, will marvel at this wonderfully intelligent, concise and helpful book. Those who are beginning will be drawn in by its clarity and its abundant insights.

— Professor Richard Vela, University of North Carolina at Pembroke

Courtney Lehmann

With remarkable economy, this volume spans a century of screen history, while providing the reader with a user-friendly guide to an impressive array of cinematic techniques and critical methodologies. Arguing the ongoing importance of approaching Shakespeare on film as a unique genre of adaptation, it offers insightful readings of a broad range of carefully chosen films and successfully integrates the study of both disciplines without compromising the integrity of either; it is a classic in its own right.

— Courtney Lehmann, University of the Pacific, Stockton

Editorial Reviews

[A] wonderfully intelligent, concise, and helpful book.

Literature/Film Quarterly