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Description
This collection of contemporary criticism highlights the extent to which recent discussion of Shakespeare on film has drawn upon the theoretical perspectives of Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis and post-structuralism, generating a radical reappraisal of a Shakespearean cinema which has itself experienced a revival in the last decade. Ranging widely across the canon of Shakespeare films, from Max Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream to Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books, the essays address the cultural politics of film adaptation from a variety of angles, offering readings of individual films -Hamlet, Henry V, The Tempest - but also raising larger questions about the nature, purpose and future direction of Shakespearean cinema.
Table of Contents
General Editor's Preface
Introduction; R.Shaughnessy
Realising Shakespeare on Film; J.J.Jorgens
Laurence Olivier's Henry V; A.Davies
Shakespeare and Film: A Question of Perspective; C.Belsey
Radical Potentiality and Institutional Closure; G.Holderness
Symbolism in Shakespeare Film; J.Collick
Olivier, Hamlet and Freud; P.S.Donaldson
Branagh and the Prince, or a 'royal fellowship of death'; C.Breight
A Post-National European Cinema: A Consideration of Derek Jarman's The Tempest and Edward II; C.MacCabe
Katherina Bound; or Play(K)ating the Strictures of Everyday Life; B.Hodgdon
Drowning the Book: Prospero's Books and the Textual Shakespeare; D.Lanier
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index.
Product details
Published | 24 Aug 1998 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 206 |
ISBN | 9780333720172 |
Imprint | Red Globe Press |
Dimensions | Not specified |
Series | New Casebooks |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |