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| Author | : William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Release Date | : 1996 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0393315053 |
| Pages | : 264 pages |
| Rating | : 4.1/5 (53 users) |
Download or read book Hamlet written by William Shakespeare and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The screenplay based on the play by William Shakespeare is accompanied by a behind-the-scenes look at its rehearsal and filming
| Author | : Samuel Crowl |
| Publisher | : Greenwood Publishing Group |
| Release Date | : 2006 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0275980898 |
| Pages | : 228 pages |
| Rating | : 4.8/5 (98 users) |
Download or read book The Films of Kenneth Branagh written by Samuel Crowl and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers Kenneth Branagh's feature films in the context of his career and his times.
| Author | : Kendra Preston Leonard |
| Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
| Release Date | : 2009-07-09 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780810869585 |
| Pages | : 164 pages |
| Rating | : 4.1/5 (695 users) |
Download or read book Shakespeare, Madness, and Music written by Kendra Preston Leonard and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-07-09 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's three political tragedies_Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear_have numerously been presented or adapted on film. These three plays all involve the recurring trope of madness, which, as constructed by Shakespeare, provided a wider canvas on which to detail those materials that could not be otherwise expressed: sexual desire and expectation, political unrest, and, ultimately, truth, as excavated by characters so afflicted. Music has long been associated with madness, and was often used as an audible symptom of a victim's disassociation from their surroundings and societal rules, as well as their loss of self-control. In Shakespeare, Madness, and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations, Kendra Preston Leonard examines the use of music in Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear. Whether discussing contemporary source materials, such as songs, verses, or rhymes specified by Shakespeare in his plays, or music composed specifically for a film and original to the director's or composer's interpretations, Leonard shows how the changing social and scholarly attitudes towards the plays, their characters, and the conditions that fall under the general catch-all of 'madness' have led to a wide range of musical accompaniments, signifiers, and incarnations of the afflictions displayed by Shakespeare's characters. Focusing on the most widely distributed and viewed adaptations of these plays for the cinema, each chapter presents the musical treatment of individual Shakespearean characters afflicted with or feigning madness: Hamlet, Ophelia, Lady Macbeth, King Lear, and Edgar. The book offers analysis and interpretation of the music used to underscore, belie, or otherwise inform or invoke the characters' states of mind, providing a fascinating indication of culture and society, as well as the thoughts and ideas of individual directors, composers, and actors. A bibliography, index, and appendix listing Shakespeare's film adaptations help complete this fascinating volume.
| Author | : Lisa S. Starks |
| Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
| Release Date | : 2002 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0838639399 |
| Pages | : 306 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (99 users) |
Download or read book The Reel Shakespeare written by Lisa S. Starks and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection models an approach to Shakespeare and cinema that is concerned with the other side of Shakespeare's Hollywood celebrity, taking the reader on a practical and theoretical tour through important, non-mainstream films and the oppositional messages they convey. The collection includes essays on early silent adaptations of 'Hamlet', Greenway's 'Prospero's Books', Godard's 'King Lear', Hall's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', Taymor's 'Titus', Polanski's 'Macbeth', Welles 'Chimes at Midnight', and Van Sant's 'My Own Private Idaho'.
| Author | : Patrick J. Cook |
| Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
| Release Date | : 2011-03-29 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780821419441 |
| Pages | : 265 pages |
| Rating | : 4.2/5 (194 users) |
Download or read book Cinematic Hamlet written by Patrick J. Cook and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinematic Hamlet contains the first scene-by-scene analysis of four outstanding film adaptations by Laurence Olivier, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh, and Michael Almereyda of Hamlet. Indispensable for anyone wishing to understand how these directors rework Shakespeare into the powerful medium of film.
| Author | : Clare McManus |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
| Release Date | : 2005-03-31 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780199265572 |
| Pages | : 449 pages |
| Rating | : 4.9/5 (655 users) |
Download or read book Reconceiving the Renaissance written by Clare McManus and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last two decades have transformed the field of Renaissance studies, and Reconceiving the Renaissance: A Critical Reader maps this difficult terrain. Attending to the breadth of fresh approaches, the volume offers a theoretical overview of current thinking about the period.Collecting in one volume the classic and cutting-edge statements which define early modern scholarship as it is now practised, this book is a one-stop indispensable resource for undergraduates and beginning postgraduates alike. Through a rich array of arguments by the world's leading experts, the Renaissance emerges wonderfully invigorated, while the suggestive shorter extracts, topical questions and engaged editorial introductions give students the wherewithal and encouragement to do somereconceiving themselves.
| Author | : Sarah Hatchuel |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Release Date | : 2004-08-12 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781139454322 |
| Pages | : pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (543 users) |
Download or read book Shakespeare, from Stage to Screen written by Sarah Hatchuel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is a Shakespearean play transformed when it is directed for the screen? In this 2004 book, Sarah Hatchuel uses literary criticism, narratology, performance history, psychoanalysis and semiotics to analyse how the plays are fundamentally altered in their screen versions. She identifies distinct strategies chosen by film directors to appropriate the plays. Instead of providing just play-by-play or film-by-film analyses, the book addresses the main issues of theatre/film aesthetics, making such theories and concepts accessible before applying them to practical cases. Her book also offers guidelines for the study of sequences in Shakespearean adaptations and includes examples from all the major films from the 1899 King John, through the adaptations by Olivier, Welles and Branagh, to Taymor's 2000 Titus and beyond. This book is aimed at scholars, teachers and students of Shakespeare and film studies, providing a clear and logical apparatus with which to examine Shakespearean screen adaptations.
| Author | : Emma French |
| Publisher | : Univ of Hertfordshire Press |
| Release Date | : 2006 |
| ISBN 10 | : 1902806514 |
| Pages | : 248 pages |
| Rating | : 4.0/5 (14 users) |
Download or read book Selling Shakespeare to Hollywood written by Emma French and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filmed Shakespeare criticism has largely centred on aesthetic critiques of filmic devices, or on comparisons between the film and the source text. Employing a new angle, this book explores the reasons why contemporary filmed Shakespeare prompts cultural anxiety about high-culture adaptation.
| Author | : Samuel Crowl |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Release Date | : 2014-03-27 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781472538918 |
| Pages | : 177 pages |
| Rating | : 4.7/5 (389 users) |
Download or read book Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare's Hamlet written by Samuel Crowl and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hamlet is the most often produced play in the western literary canon, and a fertile global source for film adaptation. Samuel Crowl, a noted scholar of Shakespeare on film, unpacks the process of adapting from text to screen through concentrating on two sharply contrasting film versions of Hamlet by Laurence Olivier (1948) and Kenneth Branagh (1996). The films' socio-political contexts are explored, and the importance of their screenplay, film score, setting, cinematography and editing examined. Offering an analysis of two of the most important figures in the history of film adaptations of Shakespeare, this study seeks to understand a variety of cinematic approaches to translating Shakespeare's “words, words, words” into film's particular grammar and rhetoric
| Author | : Jessica M. Maerz |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Release Date | : 2017-05-11 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781443893381 |
| Pages | : 150 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (933 users) |
Download or read book Metanarrative Functions of Film Genre in Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare Films written by Jessica M. Maerz and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenneth Branagh is the most important contemporary figure in the production of filmed Shakespeare. His five feature-length Shakespeare films, Henry V (1989), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Hamlet (1996), Love’s Labour’s Lost (2000) and As You Like It (2007) both created and represented the explosion of filmed Shakespeare adaptations that began in the 1990s. This book demonstrates Branagh’s appeal to classical film genres in order to meta-narrate for a popular audience the unfamiliar terrain of the Shakespearean original; it examines the debts Branagh owes, stylistically and structurally, to classically-defined generic modes. The generic appeal in Branagh’s films is one that grows progressively, becoming incrementally more critical to his Shakespearean adaptations as Branagh’s career progresses. Thus, his debut film, Henry V, is the least classically generic of all his films, relying primarily on intertextual and generic references to more contemporary styles, like the action genre and the Vietnam War film. Much Ado About Nothing represents a transitional moment in Branagh’s generic development; while the film closely accords to the norms of the screwball comedy, this generic correspondence derives primarily from the Shakespearean text. With Hamlet, Branagh begins to experiment with genre as a conceptual conceit: although the film owes much to classical domestic melodrama, particularly in Hamlet’s relationships with Gertrude and Ophelia, Branagh frames his domestic story with devices drawn from the classical Hollywood historical epic. Branagh’s spectacular failure Love’s Labour’s Lost demonstrates a unique subordination of the logic and authority of the Shakespearean source text to the demands of the classical musical form. Finally, Branagh’s most recent film, As You Like It, reveals a new approach towards working with filmed Shakespeare, while simultaneously “re-working” the generic structures and practices that characterize his earlier, more successful films.
| Author | : Mark Thornton Burnett |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Release Date | : 2016-01-22 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780230286795 |
| Pages | : 244 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (867 users) |
Download or read book Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siecle written by Mark Thornton Burnett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume read the Shakespeare films of the 1990s as key instruments with which western culture confronts the anxieties attendant upon the transition from one century to another. Such films as Hamlet, Love's Labour's Lost, Othello, Shakespeare in Love and William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet , the contributors maintain, engage with some of the most pressing concerns of the present, apocalyptic condition - familial crisis, social estrangement, urban blight, cultural hybridity, literary authority, the impact of technology and the end of history. The volume includes an exclusive interview with Kenneth Branagh.
| Author | : Russell Jackson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Release Date | : 2000-10-26 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0521639751 |
| Pages | : 364 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (51 users) |
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film written by Russell Jackson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-26 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays are increasingly popular and now figure prominently in the study of his work and its reception. This lively Companion is a collection of critical and historical essays on the films adapted from, and inspired by, Shakespeare's plays. An international team of leading scholars discuss Shakespearean films from a variety of perspectives: as works of art in their own right; as products of the international movie industry; in terms of cinematic and theatrical genres; and as the work of particular directors from Laurence Olivier and Orson Welles to Franco Zeffirelli and Kenneth Branagh. They also consider specific issues such as the portrayal of Shakespeare's women and the supernatural. The emphasis is on feature films for cinema, rather than television, with strong coverage of Hamlet, Richard III, Macbeth, King Lear and Romeo and Juliet. A guide to further reading and a useful filmography are also provided.
| Author | : Jonathan Holmes |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Release Date | : 2004 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780415319584 |
| Pages | : 209 pages |
| Rating | : 4.1/5 (195 users) |
Download or read book Merely Players? written by Jonathan Holmes and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brings together for the first time the diverse voices of actors writing about their experiences of playing Shakespeare.
| Author | : Arthur F. Kinney |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Release Date | : 2013-10-28 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781136017261 |
| Pages | : 256 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (172 users) |
Download or read book Hamlet written by Arthur F. Kinney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, the international contributors to Hamlet: New Critical Essays contribute major new interpretations on the conception and writing, editing, and cultural productions of Hamlet. This book is the most up-to-date and comprehensive critical analysis available of one of Shakespeare's best-known and most engaging plays.
| Author | : Barbara Hodgdon |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Release Date | : 2008-04-15 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781405150231 |
| Pages | : 704 pages |
| Rating | : 4.0/5 (52 users) |
Download or read book A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance written by Barbara Hodgdon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance provides astate-of-the-art engagement with the rapidly developing field ofShakespeare performance studies. Redraws the boundaries of Shakespeare performance studies. Considers performance in a range of media, including in print,in the classroom, in the theatre, in film, on television and video,in multimedia and digital forms. Introduces important terms and contemporary areas of enquiry inShakespeare and performance. Raises questions about the dynamic interplay betweenShakespearean writing and the practices of contemporary performanceand performance studies. Written by an international group of major scholars, teachers,and professional theatre makers.
| Author | : Ailsa Grant Ferguson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Release Date | : 2016-06-23 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781135041854 |
| Pages | : 212 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (418 users) |
Download or read book Shakespeare, Cinema, Counter-Culture written by Ailsa Grant Ferguson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing for the first time Shakespeare’s place in counter-cultural cinema, this book examines and theorizes counter-hegemonic, postmodern, and post-punk Shakespeare in late 20th and early 21st century film. Drawing on a diverse range of case studies, Grant Ferguson presents an interdisciplinary approach that offers new theories on the nature and application of Shakespearean appropriations in the light of postmodern modes of representation. The book considers the nature of the Shakespearean inter-text in subcultural political contexts concerning the politicized aesthetics of a Shakespearean ‘body in pieces,’ the carnivalesque, and notions of Shakespeare as counter-hegemonic weapon or source of empowerment. Representative films use Shakespeare (and his accompanying cultural capital) to challenge notions of capitalist globalization, dominant socio-cultural ideologies, and hegemonic modes of expression. In response to a post-modern culture saturated with logos and semiotic abbreviations, many such films play with the emblematic imagery and references of Shakespeare’s texts. These curious appropriations have much to reveal about the elusive nature of intertextuality in late postmodern culture and the battle for cultural ownership of Shakespeare. As there has yet to be a study that isolates and theorizes modes of Shakespearean production that specifically demonstrate resistance to the social, political, ideological, aesthetic, and cinematic norms of the Western world, this book expands the dialogue around such texts and interprets their patterns of appropriation, adaptation, and representation of Shakespeare.
| Author | : Andrew Barnaby |
| Publisher | : SUNY Press |
| Release Date | : 2017-06-29 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781438465777 |
| Pages | : 322 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (657 users) |
Download or read book Coming Too Late written by Andrew Barnaby and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinks the significance of the sons relationship to his father for Freuds psychoanalytic theory. Aiming to reconceptualize some of Freuds earliest psychoanalytic thinking, Andrew Barnabys Coming Too Late argues that what Freud understood as the fundamental psychoanalytic relationshipa sons ambivalent relationship to his fatheris governed not by the sexual rivalry of the Oedipus complex but by the existential predicament of belatedness. Analyzing the rhetorical tensions of Freuds writing, Barnaby shows that filial ambivalence derives particularly from the sons vexed relation to a paternal origin he can never claim as his own. Barnaby also demonstrates how Freud at once grasped and failed to grasp the formative nature of the sons crisis of coming after, a duality marked especially in Freuds readings and misreadings of a series of precursor textsthe biblical stories of Moses, Shakespeares Hamlet, E. T. A. Hoffmanns The Sandmanthat often anticipate the very insights that the Oedipal model at once reveals and conceals. Reinterpreting Freudian psychoanalysis through the lens of Freuds own acts of interpretation, Coming Too Late further aims to consider just what is at stake in the foundational relationship between psychoanalysis and literature.
