The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare on screen / edited by Russell Jackson.
| Other author | Jackson, Russell, 1949- |
| Other author | Cambridge University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Cambridge Companions |
| Subjects |
| Series | Cambridge companions to literature |
| Contents | Shakespeare and the film industry of the pre-sound era / Judith Buchanan -- Adaptation and the marketing of Shakespeare in classical Hollywood / Deborah Cartmell -- Shakespeare 'live' / Peter Holland -- Shakespearean cinemas/global directions / Mark Thornton Burnett -- The comedies on screen / Ramona Wray -- The environments of tragedy on screen : Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth / Peter Kirwan -- Two tragedies of love : Romeo and Juliet and Othello / Victoria Bladen -- 'Sad stories of the death of kings' - the hollow crown and the Shakespearean history play on screen / Kinga Földváry -- The Roman plays on film / Peter J. Smith -- Screening Shakespearean fantasy and romance in A midsummer night's dream and The tempest / Anthony Guy Patricia -- Questions of racism : The merchant of Venice and Othello / Russell Jackson -- 'A wail in the silence' : feminism, sexuality, and final meanings in King Lear films by Grigorii Kozintsev, Peter Brook, and Akira Kurosawa / Courtney Lehmann -- Violence, tragic and comic, in Coriolanus and The taming of the shrew / Patricia Lennox -- The Shakespeare films of Orson Welles / Emma Smith -- Kurosawa's Shakespeare : mute heavens, merging world or the metaphors of cruelty / Anne-Marie Costantini-Cornède -- Zeffirelli's Shakespearean motion pictures : living monuments / Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin -- Kenneth Branagh : mainstreaming Shakespeare in movie theatres / Sarah Hatchuel -- Remaking Shakespeare in India : Vishal Bhardwaj's films / Poonam Trivedi. |
| Abstract | "The arrival of the film industry's sound era in the late 1920s quickly consigned silent film to being 'yesterday's thing.' As a result, the cans containing gently crumbling or spontaneously combusting prints of silent films were not a mainstream archiving priority for some time"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare on screen Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020. 9781108421164 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020015726 |
| ISBN | 9781108367479 (ebook) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |