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A history of Shakespeare on screen : a century of film and television / Kenneth S. Rothwell.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.Description: xiv, 352 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0521594049
  • 9780521594042
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/6
LOC classification:
  • PR 3093 R848h 1999
Online resources:
Contents:
Preface; List of illustrations; 1. Shakespeare in silence: in search of the 'best class of people'; 2. Hollywood's four seasons of Shakespeare: Kate is heard as well as seen; 3. Laurence Olivier: marketing Shakespeare for the better classes; 4. Orson Welles, auteur: Shakespeare for the arthouses; 5. Shakespeare in the age of electronics: TV, electronovision, videocassette, laser disk, CD-ROM and WWW; 6. Shakespeare in sunny Italy: spectacle and song in Castellani and Zeffirelli; 7. The darker vision: the Shakespeare movie in the age of angst; 8. 'Other Shakespeares' in other realms: translation, adaptation, transformation and expropriation; 9. Shakespeare movies of different kinds: 'cinema of transgression', derivatives and beyond the fringe; 10. The renaissance of Shakespeare in moving images: across the mall and into the multiplex; Bibliography; Filmography and title index; Name index.
Summary: This book chronicles how film-makers have re-imagined Shakespeare's plays in moving images from their earliest exhibition in nickelodeons to today's multi-million dollar productions. A filmography, bibliography and index of names make it invaluable as a one-volume reference work for specialists but it will also appeal to a more general audience.
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Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PR 3093 R848h 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000124429

Filmography and title index [p. 308].

Includes bibliographical references (p. 282-298) and index.

Preface; List of illustrations; 1. Shakespeare in silence: in search of the 'best class of people'; 2. Hollywood's four seasons of Shakespeare: Kate is heard as well as seen; 3. Laurence Olivier: marketing Shakespeare for the better classes; 4. Orson Welles, auteur: Shakespeare for the arthouses; 5. Shakespeare in the age of electronics: TV, electronovision, videocassette, laser disk, CD-ROM and WWW; 6. Shakespeare in sunny Italy: spectacle and song in Castellani and Zeffirelli; 7. The darker vision: the Shakespeare movie in the age of angst; 8. 'Other Shakespeares' in other realms: translation, adaptation, transformation and expropriation; 9. Shakespeare movies of different kinds: 'cinema of transgression', derivatives and beyond the fringe; 10. The renaissance of Shakespeare in moving images: across the mall and into the multiplex; Bibliography; Filmography and title index; Name index.

This book chronicles how film-makers have re-imagined Shakespeare's plays in moving images from their earliest exhibition in nickelodeons to today's multi-million dollar productions. A filmography, bibliography and index of names make it invaluable as a one-volume reference work for specialists but it will also appeal to a more general audience.

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