Cinematic Shakespeare

Cinematic Shakespeare

by Michael Anderegg
Cinematic Shakespeare

Cinematic Shakespeare

by Michael Anderegg

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Overview

Cinematic Shakespeare takes the reader inside the making of a number of significant adaptations to illustrate how cinema transforms and re-imagines the dramatic form and style central to Shakespeare's imagination. Cinematic Shakespeare investigates how Shakespeare films constitute an exciting and ever-changing film genre. The challenges of adopting Shakespeare to cinema are like few other film genres. Anderegg looks closely at films by Laurence Olivier (Richard III), Orson Welles (Macbeth), and Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet) as well as topics like 'Postmodern Shakespeares' (Julie Taymor's Titus and Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books) and multiple adaptations over the years of Romeo and Juliet. A chapter on television looks closely at American broadcasting in the 1950s (the Hallmark Hall of Fame Shakespeare adaptations) and the BBC/Time-Life Shakespeare Plays from the late 70s and early 80s.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780742510913
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 11/22/2003
Series: Genre and Beyond: A Film Studies Series
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 6.24(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Michael Anderegg is professor of English and film studies at the University of North Dakota. He is the author of William Wyler (1979), David Lean (1982), and the editor of Inventing Vietnam (1991). His most recent book is Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture (1999).

Table of Contents

Series Foreword Genre and Beyond: A Film Studies Seriesix
Prefacexiii
Chapter 1Introduction: The Shakespeare Film and Genre1
Chapter 2Finding the Playwright on Film27
Chapter 3The Challenges of Romeo and Juliet54
Chapter 4In and Out of Hollywood: Shakespeare in the Studio Era86
Chapter 5Branagh and the Sons of Ken118
Chapter 6Electronic Shakespeares: Televisual Histories148
Chapter 7Post-Shakespeares177
Bibliography207
Index217
About the Author227
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