Shakespeare, Film Studies, and the Visual Cultures of Modernity

A. Guneratne

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Jahr: 2016
• ISBN:
  9780230613737
• Thema: Media & Performing Arts
• Thema: Film History & Criticism

This book is the first in-depth cultural history of cinema's polyvalent and often contradictory appropriations of Shakespearean drama and performance traditions. The author argues that these adapatations have helped shape multiple aspects of film, from cinematic style to genre and narrative construction.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• What’s in a Name? Or, Something like an Introduction
• One Reconstituting King John: Victorian Theatrical Photorealism and the Protocinema of Adaptation
• Two Featuring the Bard: Frederick Warde’s Shakespeare and the Transformation of American Cinema
• Three The Exfoliating Folio, or Transnational and International Avant-Gardes from Bernhardt’s Hamlets to Hollywood’s Europeans
• Four Genre, Style, and the Politique des Auteurs: Orson Welles versus “William Shakespeare”
• Five Six Authors in Search of a Text: The Shakespeares of Van Sant, Branagh, Godard, Pasolini, Greenaway, and Luhrmann
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index