Shakespeare and the Moving Image
Subtitle: The Plays on Film and Television
Contributors: Anthony Davies (Editor); Stanley Wells (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 28, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780521435734
Subjects: Films, cinema; Shakespeare studies & criticism; Shakespeare, William,; Film adaptations; Drama; Theater - General; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Shakespeare; Cinema/Film: Book; Film and video adaptations; Film & Video - Guides & Reviews; Performing Arts / Theater / General; Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Film and video adaptations; Television adaptations; 1564-1616; English drama; History and criticism
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.