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Shakespeare and the English-speaking Cinema

Jackson, Russell
Innbundet / 2014 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199659470
Publisert
2014
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
358 gr
Høyde
209 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Dybde
19 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
204

Forfatter
Jackson, Russell

Biografisk notat

Russell Jackson is Allardyce Nicoll Professor of Drama in the University of Birmingham, where his research and teaching have focused on theatre history, film and Shakespearean performance. His recent publications include he Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film, Shakespeare Films in the Making: Vision, Production and Reception (CUP, 2007), and Theatres on Film: how the Cinema imagines the Stages (Manchester University Press, 2013). He has been text consultant on many theatre and film productions including Kenneth Branagh's films of Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Love's Labours Lost and As You Like It, and stage productions directed by Michael Grandage -- including Othello, King Lear and Richard II at the Donmar Theatre, Twelfth Night and Hamlet at Wyndham's Theatre, and A Midsummer Night's Dream and Henry V at the Noël Coward Theatre.

Shakespeare and the English-speaking Cinema

Jackson, Russell
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With its generous range of examples and immediately accessible perspectives such as gender, Shakespeare and the English-Speaking Cinema is a valuable resource for students of Adaptation Studies, providing a brief but largely complete overview of Shakespeare on film.

Anna Blackwell, Modern Language Review

Jackson's study serves as an excellent entree into the world of Shakespearean film adaptation, identifying key elements of adaptation and in so doing laying a strong foundation for further study of the subject ... Highly recommended.

A. F. Winstead, CHOICE

a mine of information supported by thorough, well-documented archival research ... it clearly has its place on the shelves of all who either wish to have an entertaining introduction into the most important feature films based on Shakespearean texts, or who enjoy being challenged out of old assumptions and made to think and rethink their former opinions.

Kinga Foldvary, Sixteenth Century Journal

Shakespeare and the English-speaking Cinema is a lively, authoritative, and innovative overview of the ways in which Shakespeare's plays have been adapted for cinema. Organised by topics rather than chronology, it offers detailed commentary on significant films, including both 'mainstream' and 'canonical' works by such directors as Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Franco Zeffirelli, and Kenneth Branagh, and such ground-breaking movies as Derek Jarman's The Tempest, Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet and Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books. Chapters on the location of films in place and time, the effect of this on characterisation, and issues of gender and political power are followed by a discussion of work that goes 'beyond Shakespeare. A filmography and suggestions for further reading complete this stimulating, fresh, and accessible account of an important aspect of Shakespeare studies.
Les mer
Shakespeare and the English-speaking Cinema offers a lively and authorative account of the ways in which Shakespeare's plays have been adapted for the screen.
Preface ; Introduction: Legalised plagiarism and the rewards of adaptation ; 1. Places ; 2. People ; 3. Gender matters in comedy ; 4. Eros in tragedy ; 5. Power Plays - politics in the Shakespeare films ; 6. Beyond Shakespeare ; 'Please Rewind' ; Filmography ; Further Reading
Les mer
Russell Jackson is Allardyce Nicoll Professor of Drama in the University of Birmingham, where his research and teaching have focused on theatre history, film and Shakespearean performance. His recent publications include he Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film, Shakespeare Films in the Making: Vision, Production and Reception (CUP, 2007), and Theatres on Film: how the Cinema imagines the Stages (Manchester University Press, 2013). He has been text consultant on many theatre and film productions including Kenneth Branagh's films of Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Love's Labours Lost and As You Like It, and stage productions directed by Michael Grandage -- including Othello, King Lear and Richard II at the Donmar Theatre, Twelfth Night and Hamlet at Wyndham's Theatre, and A Midsummer Night's Dream and Henry V at the Noël Coward Theatre.
Les mer
Provides a comprehensive overview of Shakespeare on film Places films in their contexts in the film industry Strikes a a balance between issues in the study of film and the inevitable and legitimate comparisons of film versions with the original play Offers detailed analysis of specific sequences in individual films as well as discussion of their general approach and effectiveness
Les mer

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With its generous range of examples and immediately accessible perspectives such as gender, Shakespeare and the English-Speaking Cinema is a valuable resource for students of Adaptation Studies, providing a brief but largely complete overview of Shakespeare on film.

Anna Blackwell, Modern Language Review

Jackson's study serves as an excellent entree into the world of Shakespearean film adaptation, identifying key elements of adaptation and in so doing laying a strong foundation for further study of the subject ... Highly recommended.

A. F. Winstead, CHOICE

a mine of information supported by thorough, well-documented archival research ... it clearly has its place on the shelves of all who either wish to have an entertaining introduction into the most important feature films based on Shakespearean texts, or who enjoy being challenged out of old assumptions and made to think and rethink their former opinions.

Kinga Foldvary, Sixteenth Century Journal

Shakespeare and the English-speaking Cinema is a lively, authoritative, and innovative overview of the ways in which Shakespeare's plays have been adapted for cinema. Organised by topics rather than chronology, it offers detailed commentary on significant films, including both 'mainstream' and 'canonical' works by such directors as Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Franco Zeffirelli, and Kenneth Branagh, and such ground-breaking movies as Derek Jarman's The Tempest, Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet and Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books. Chapters on the location of films in place and time, the effect of this on characterisation, and issues of gender and political power are followed by a discussion of work that goes 'beyond Shakespeare. A filmography and suggestions for further reading complete this stimulating, fresh, and accessible account of an important aspect of Shakespeare studies.
Les mer
Shakespeare and the English-speaking Cinema offers a lively and authorative account of the ways in which Shakespeare's plays have been adapted for the screen.
Preface ; Introduction: Legalised plagiarism and the rewards of adaptation ; 1. Places ; 2. People ; 3. Gender matters in comedy ; 4. Eros in tragedy ; 5. Power Plays - politics in the Shakespeare films ; 6. Beyond Shakespeare ; 'Please Rewind' ; Filmography ; Further Reading
Les mer
Russell Jackson is Allardyce Nicoll Professor of Drama in the University of Birmingham, where his research and teaching have focused on theatre history, film and Shakespearean performance. His recent publications include he Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film, Shakespeare Films in the Making: Vision, Production and Reception (CUP, 2007), and Theatres on Film: how the Cinema imagines the Stages (Manchester University Press, 2013). He has been text consultant on many theatre and film productions including Kenneth Branagh's films of Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Love's Labours Lost and As You Like It, and stage productions directed by Michael Grandage -- including Othello, King Lear and Richard II at the Donmar Theatre, Twelfth Night and Hamlet at Wyndham's Theatre, and A Midsummer Night's Dream and Henry V at the Noël Coward Theatre.
Les mer
Provides a comprehensive overview of Shakespeare on film Places films in their contexts in the film industry Strikes a a balance between issues in the study of film and the inevitable and legitimate comparisons of film versions with the original play Offers detailed analysis of specific sequences in individual films as well as discussion of their general approach and effectiveness
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199659470
Publisert
2014
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
358 gr
Høyde
209 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Dybde
19 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
204

Forfatter
Jackson, Russell

Biografisk notat

Russell Jackson is Allardyce Nicoll Professor of Drama in the University of Birmingham, where his research and teaching have focused on theatre history, film and Shakespearean performance. His recent publications include he Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film, Shakespeare Films in the Making: Vision, Production and Reception (CUP, 2007), and Theatres on Film: how the Cinema imagines the Stages (Manchester University Press, 2013). He has been text consultant on many theatre and film productions including Kenneth Branagh's films of Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Love's Labours Lost and As You Like It, and stage productions directed by Michael Grandage -- including Othello, King Lear and Richard II at the Donmar Theatre, Twelfth Night and Hamlet at Wyndham's Theatre, and A Midsummer Night's Dream and Henry V at the Noël Coward Theatre.

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