Shakespeare on Film
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0819181579
ISBN-13
9780819181572
Publisher
University Press of America
Imprint
University Press of America
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 1st, 1991
Print length
352 Pages
Weight
535 grams
Dimensions
22.70 x 15.50 x 2.60 cms
Product Classification:
Film theory & criticismShakespeare studies & criticism
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Providing detailed analyses of 16 major films, this book explores the much-disputed area where literature, theatre and film overlap. The work of directors such as Orson Welles, Roman Polanski, Peter Brook, Franco Zeffirelli and Akira Kurosawa is discussed.
Explores the overlapping, hotly disputed borderlands of literature, theater and film. Concerned with the creative possibilities of rendering Shakespeare on film, the book studies the rich interpretations of Shakespeare by such major directors as Orson Welles, Roman Polanski, Peter Brook, Franco Zeffirelli, the famous Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, and one of Russia''s greatest filmmakers, Grigori Kozintsev. It provides a detailed analyses of sixteen major films, illuminating the relations between Renaissance visions and modern re-visions, the parallels of poetic and cinematic imagery, and the quests of directors for significant cinematic style. Dramatically illustrated by over one hundred film photographs. Originally published by Indiana University Press in 1977.
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