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Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare’s Hamlet
The Relationship between Text and Film
Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare’s Hamlet
The Relationship between Text and Film
Description
Hamlet is the most often produced play in the western literary canon, and a fertile global source for film adaptation. Samuel Crowl, a noted scholar of Shakespeare on film, unpacks the process of adapting from text to screen through concentrating on two sharply contrasting film versions of Hamlet by Laurence Olivier (1948) and Kenneth Branagh (1996). The films' socio-political contexts are explored, and the importance of their screenplay, film score, setting, cinematography and editing examined.
Offering an analysis of two of the most important figures in the history of film adaptations of Shakespeare, this study seeks to understand a variety of cinematic approaches to translating Shakespeare's “words, words, words” into film's particular grammar and rhetoric
Table of Contents
Preface
1 Literary contexts
2 Laurence Olivier's Hamlet: from text to screen
3 Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet: from text to screen
4 Critical response and the afterlife of text and film
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 30 Jan 2014 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 176 |
| ISBN | 9781472538932 |
| Imprint | The Arden Shakespeare |
| Series | Screen Adaptations |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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