A History of Shakespeare on Screen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Shakespeare on Screen write by Kenneth S. Rothwell. This book was released on 2004-10-28. A History of Shakespeare on Screen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edition of A History of Shakespeare on Screen updates the chronology to 2003, with a new chapter on recent films.
100 Shakespeare Films
100 Shakespeare Films - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 100 Shakespeare Films write by Daniel Rosenthal. This book was released on 2019-07-25. 100 Shakespeare Films available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Oscar-winning British classics to Hollywood musicals and Westerns, from Soviet epics to Bollywood thrillers, Shakespeare has inspired an almost infinite variety of films. Directors as diverse as Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh, Baz Luhrmann and Julie Taymor have transferred Shakespeare's plays from stage to screen with unforgettable results. Spanning a century of cinema, from a silent short of 'The Tempest' (1907) to Kenneth Branagh's 'As You Like It' (2006), Daniel Rosenthal's up-to-date selection takes in the most important, inventive and unusual Shakespeare films ever made. Half are British and American productions that retain Shakespeare's language, including key works such as Olivier's 'Henry V' and 'Hamlet', Welles' 'Othello' and 'Chimes at Midnight', Branagh's 'Henry V' and 'Hamlet', Luhrmann's 'Romeo + Juliet' and Taymor's 'Titus'. Alongside these original-text films are more than 30 genre adaptations: titles that aim for a wider audience by using modernized dialogue and settings and customizing Shakespeare's plots and characters, transforming 'Macbeth' into a pistol-packing gangster ('Joe Macbeth' and 'Maqbool') or reimagining 'Othello' as a jazz musician ('All Night Long'). There are Shakesepeare-based Westerns ('Broken Lance', 'King of Texas'), musicals ('West Side Story', 'Kiss Me Kate'), high-school comedies ('10 Things I Hate About You', 'She's the Man'), even a sci-fi adventure ('Forbidden Planet'). There are also films dominated by the performance of a Shakespearean play ('In the Bleak Midwinter', 'Shakespeare in Love'). Rosenthal emphasises the global nature of Shakespearean cinema, with entries on more than 20 foreign-language titles, including Kurosawa's 'Throne of Blood and Ran', Grigori Kozintsev's 'Russian Hamlet' and 'King Lear', and little-known features from as far afield as 'Madagascar' and 'Venezuela', some never released in Britain or the US. He considers the films' production and box-office history and examines the film-makers' key interpretive decisions in comparison to their Shakespearean sources, focusing on cinematography, landscape, music, performance, production design, textual alterations and omissions. As cinema plays an increasingly important role in the study of Shakespeare at schools and universities, this is a wide-ranging, entertaining and accessible guide for Shakespeare teachers, students and enthusiasts.
Shakespeare on Film
Shakespeare on Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shakespeare on Film write by Judith R. Buchanan. This book was released on 2014-07-22. Shakespeare on Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the earliest days of the cinema to the present, Shakespeare has offered a tempting bank of source material than the film industry has been happy to plunder. Shakespeare on Film deftly examines an extensive range of films that have emerged from the curious union of an iconic dramatist with a medium of mass appeal. The many films Buchanan studies are shown to be telling indicators of trends in Shakespearean performance interpretation, illuminating markers of developments in the film industry and culturally revealing about broader influences in the world beyond the movie theatre. As with other titles from the Inside Film series, the book is illustrated throughout with stills. Each chapter concludes with a list of suggested further reading in the field.
A History of Shakespeare on Screen
A History of Shakespeare on Screen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Shakespeare on Screen write by Kenneth Sprague Rothwell. This book was released on 2001. A History of Shakespeare on Screen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Shakespeare on Silent Film
Shakespeare on Silent Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shakespeare on Silent Film write by Robert Hamilton Ball. This book was released on 2013-07-18. Shakespeare on Silent Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1899, when film projection was barely three years old, Herbert Beerbohm Tree was filmed as King John. In his highly entertaining history, Robert Hamilton Ball traces in detail the fate of Shakespeare on silent films from Tree’s first effort until the establishment of sound in 1929. The silent films brought Shakespeare to a wide public who had never had the chance to see his plays in the theatre. And Shakespeare gave the film makers an air of respectability that was badly needed by a medium with a reputation for frivolity. This work, first published in 1968, brings history to life with excerpts from scenarios, from reviews and from contemporary film journals, and with reproduction of stills and frames from the films themselves, including unusual shots of leading screen actors. This is a valuable source book for film experts, enhanced by full notes, bibliography and indexes; a fresh approach for Shakespeareans; and a vivid sketch of a world that has passed for all.
