Shakespeare and the Moving Image
Subtitle: The Plays on Film and Television
Contributors: Anthony Davies (Editor); Stanley Wells (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 25, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780521434249
Subjects: Films, cinema; Shakespeare studies & criticism; Theater - General; History and criticism; Motion Pictures (Specific Aspects); Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; English; Cinema/Film: Book; Film & Video - Guides & Reviews; Performing Arts / Theater / General; Shakespeare, William; Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Film and video adaptations; English drama; Film adaptations; Film and video adaptations; Television adaptations
First sentence: When in 1916 Hugo Munsterberg claimed that the photoplay overcomes 'the forms of the outer world . . . by adjusting events to the forms of the inner world', he perceived the major shift from the theatre stage to the cinema screen as being psychological rather than technological.