num_pages: 184
description: In Still in Movement , Buchman explores the ways in which Shakespeare's plays function as products of cinematic technique and the ways in which the films organize the material of the drama to activate a particular imaginative response. To that end, he focuses on key moments in the films ofLaurence Olivier ( Henry V , Hamlet , and Richard III ), Orson Welles ( Macbeth , Othello , and Chimes at Midnight ), Grigory Kozintav ( Hamlet and King Lear ), Roman Polanski ( Macbeth ) and Peter Brook ( King Lear ). He examines how these films clarify the process according to spatial and temporal structures ofthe medium. Buchman's approach is unique in the area of Shakespeare on film; he covers specific topics and addresses questions pertinent to those topics not through individual essays on any one film, play, or filmmaker, but through a comparative treatment of key sequences from a number of differentfilms.
language: English
title: Still in Movement: Shakespeare on Screen
titlecomplete: Still in Movement: Shakespeare on Screen
publisher: Oxford University Press