Shakespeare on silent film
Subtitle: an excellent dumb discourse
By: Judith Buchanan.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521871990
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Film and video adaptations; English drama -- Film and video adaptations; Silent films -- History and criticism; Film adaptations -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: wresting an alphabet; title: Shakespeare without words: the nineteenth-century legacy from the magic lantern and the stage; title: Biograph's pioneering film of King John (1899): King John (bmbc: W.K-L. Dickson and Walter Pfeffer Dando, 1899); title: Conflicted allegiances in Shakespeare films of the transitional era: The tempest (Clarendon, 1908), Otello (Fai, 1909); title: Corporate authorship: the Shakespeare films of the Vitagraph Company of America; title: Vitagraph's Julius Caesar (1908), Macbeth (1908), Romeo and Juliet (1908), Othello (1908), The merchant of Venice (1908), A midsummer night's dream (1909), King Lear (1909), Twelfth night (1910); Georges Méliès' La mort de Jules César (1907); Cines' Brutus (1910); Thanhouser's A winter's tale (1910); Film d'arte Italiana's re Lear (1910); title: Pedigree and performance codes in silent films of Hamlet (Gaumont-Hepworth, 1913), Amleto (Rodolfi-Film, 1917); title: Shakespeare films of the 1916 tercentenary: The real thing at last (J.M. Barrie), Macbeth (Triangle-Reliance), Romeo and Juliet (Fox), Romeo and Juliet (Metro); title: Asta Nielsen and Emil Jannings: stars of German Shakespeare films of the early 1920s: Hamlet (Art-Film, 1920), Othello (Wörner-Filmgesellschaft, 1922).