A concise companion to Shakespeare on screen
By: edited by Diana E. Henderson.
Contributors: Henderson, Diana E., 1957-
Series: Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781405115100; 9781405115117
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Film and video adaptations; English drama -- Film and video adaptations; Film adaptations -- History and criticism
Description: This Concise Companion presents a multidisciplinary range of approaches to a vast multimedia subject, Shakespeare on screen. Draws on the latest thinking in cultural studies, communications, and comparative media, in dialogue with literary, theatrical and filmic approaches. Organised around themes, such as authorship and collaboration, theatricality, sex and violence, globalization and history. Offers readers a variety of accessible routes into the subject of Shakespeare on screen. Also enables readers to explore fundamental topics in the study of literature and culture more broadly, such as the relationships between elite and popular culture, art and the marketplace, text and image. Includes suggestions for further reading, a bibliography, a filmography, a chronology and a thorough index.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Authorship : getting back to Shakespeare : whose film is it anyway? / Elsie Walker; title: Cinema studies : "thou dost usurp authority" : Beerbohm Tree, Reinhardt, Olivier, Welles, and the politics of adapting Shakespeare / Anthony Guneratne; title: Theatricality : stage, screen and nation : Hamlet and the space of history / Robert Shaughnessy; title: The artistic process : learning from Campbell Scott's Hamlet / Diana E. Henderson; title: Cinematic performance : spectacular bodies : acting + cinema + Shakespeare / Barbara Godgdon; title: Gender studies : Shakespeare, sex and violence : negotiating masculinities in Branagh's Henry V and Taymor's Titus / Pascale Aesbischer; title: Globalization : figuring the global/historical in filmic Shakespearean tragedy / Mark Thornton Burnett; title: Cross-cultural interpretation : reading Kurosawa reading Shakespeare / Anthony Dawson; title: Popular culture : will of the people : recent Shakespeare film parody and the politics of popularization / Douglas Lanier; title: Television : brushing up Shakespeare : relevance and televisual form / Roberta Pearson and William Uricchio; title: Remediation : Hamlet among the pixelvisionaries : video art, authenticity and "wisdom" in Almereyda's Hamlet / Peter S. Donaldson.