The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare on film

The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare on film / edited by Russell Jackson.

Film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays are increasingly popular and now figure prominently in the study of his work and its reception. This Companion is a lively collection of critical and historical essays on the films adapted from, and inspired by, Shakespeare's plays. Chapters have bee...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Jackson, Russell, 1949- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Cambridge companions to literature.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Film adaptations.
English drama > Film adaptations.
Film adaptations > History and criticism.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • From play-script to screenplay / Russell Jackson
  • Video and its paradoxes / Michèle Willems
  • Critical junctures in Shakespeare screen history : the case of Richard III / Barbara Freedman
  • Shakespeare and movie genre : the case of Hamlet / Harry Keyishian
  • The comedies on film / Michael Hattaway
  • Filming Shakespeare's history : three films of Richard III / H.R. Coursen
  • Hamlet, Lady Macbeth and King Lear on film / J. Lawrence Guntner
  • The tragedies of love on film / Patricia Tatspaugh
  • The Shakespeare films of Laurence Olivier / Anthony Davies
  • Orson Welles and filmed Shakespeare / Pamela Mason
  • Grigori Kozintsev's Hamlet and King Lear / Mark Sokolyansky
  • Franco Zeffirelli and Shakespeare / Deborah Cartmell
  • Flamboyant realist : Kenneth Branagh / Samuel Crowl
  • Looking at Shakespeare's women on film / Carol Chillington Rutter
  • National and racial stereotypes in Shakespeare films / Neil Taylor
  • Shakespeare the illusionist : filming the supernatural / Neil Forsyth
  • Shakespeare's cinematic offshoots / Tony Howard.

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