Shakespeare and the English-speaking Cinema

Russell Jackson author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:18th Sep '14

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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.

With its generous range of examples and immediately accessible perspectives such as gender, Shakespeare and the English-Speaking Cinema is a valuable resource for students of Adaptation Studies, providing a brief but largely complete overview of Shakespeare on film. * Anna Blackwell, Modern Language Review *
Jackson's study serves as an excellent entree into the world of Shakespearean film adaptation, identifying key elements of adaptation and in so doing laying a strong foundation for further study of the subject ... Highly recommended. * A. F. Winstead, CHOICE *
a mine of information supported by thorough, well-documented archival research ... it clearly has its place on the shelves of all who either wish to have an entertaining introduction into the most important feature films based on Shakespearean texts, or who enjoy being challenged out of old assumptions and made to think and rethink their former opinions. * Kinga Foldvary, Sixteenth Century Journal *

ISBN: 9780199659470

Dimensions: 209mm x 148mm x 19mm

Weight: 358g

204 pages