Laurence Olivier / by Hirsch, Foster

Laurence Olivier and the art of film making / by Silviria, Dale, 1950-

On acting / by Olivier, Laurence, 1907-1989

Shakespearean star : Laurence Olivier and national cinema / by Barnes, Jennifer, 1960-

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Filming Shakespeare's plays : the adaptations of Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook, and Akira Kurosawa / by Davies, Anthony, 1936-

Table of Contents: “…Theatrical and cinematic space -- Laurence Olivier's Henry V -- Laurence Olivier's Hamlet -- Laurence Olivier's Richard III -- Orson Welles's Macbeth -- Orson Welles's Othello -- Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight -- Peter Brook's King Lear and Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood -- The film actor.…”
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The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare on film /

Table of Contents: “…Shakespeare films of Laurence Olivier /…”

Shakespeare's Hamlet : the relationship between text and film / by Crowl, Samuel

Table of Contents: “…Literary contexts -- 2. Laurence Olivier's Hamlet: from text to screen -- 3. Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet: from text to screen -- 4. …”
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Cinematic Hamlet : the films of Olivier, Zeffirelli, Branagh, and Almereyda / by Cook, Patrick J., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Laurence Olivier's Hamlet: the triumph of the cinesthetic -- Franco zeffirelli's Hamlet: modernizing medievalism -- Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet: the challenges of the full-text screenplay -- Michael Almereyda's Hamlet: uncanny imagination.…”
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Hamlet; father and son. by Alexander, Peter, 1893-1969

Shakespeare on film / by Hindle, Maurice

Table of Contents: “…SHAKESPEARE AND THE LANGUAGE OF FILM -- Filming and Staging Shakespeare: Some Contrasts -- The Audience: Individual and Collective Experience -- Imagery: Verbal and Visual -- Bringing It All Together -- THE HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE ON FILM 1899-2014 -- Silent Shakespeare -- The Thirties: Hollywood Shakespeare -- The Forties: Olivier and Welles -- The Fifties: Post-war Diversity -- The Sixties and Seventies: Cultural Revolution, Filmic Innovation -- The Nineties: Branagh's Renaissance and the Shakespeare on Film Revival -- Shakespeare on Film in the 21st Century -- COMMUNICATING SHAKESPEARE ON FILM: MODES, STYLES, GENRES -- The Theatrical Mode -- The Realistic Mode -- The Filmic Mode -- The Periodizing Mode -- Film Genre: Conventions and Codes -- Genre Conventions and the Shakespeare Film Adaptation -- A Cross-cultural Shakespeare Adaptation: Kurosawa's Kumonosu-Jo -- CRITICAL ESSAYS -- COMEDIES -- Introductory Note -- Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing (UK, 1993) -- Adrian Noble's A Midsummer Night's Dream (UK, 1996) -- Michael Hoffman's A Midsummer Night's Dream (USA, 1999) -- HISTORIES -- Introductory Note -- Laurence Olivier's Henry V (UK, 1994) -- Kenneth Branagh's Henry V (UK, 1989) -- Laurence Olivier's Richard III (UK, 1955) -- Richard Loncraine's Richard III (UK, 1995) -- TRAGEDIES -- Introductory -- Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (UK/Italy, 1968) -- Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (USA, 1996) -- Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (UK, 1948) -- Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (UK, 1996) -- Michael Almereyda's Hamlet (USA, 2000) -- Orson Welles's Macbeth (USA, 1948) -- Roman Polanski's Macbeth (UK, 1971) -- SHAKESPEARE ON THE SMALL SCREEN -- Film, TV and Small Screen Shakespeare -- The BBC-TV Series: Shooting the Complete Canon -- The Stage-Screen Hybrid: Shakespeare on TV/DVD/Blu-ray -- Appendix: Filming Shakespeare for the Small Screen -- An Interview with John Wyver, Illuminations filmmaker and producer -- References -- Suggested Further Reading -- Select Filmography -- Some Useful Websites -- Glossary of Terms.…”

A history of Shakespeare on screen : a century of film and television / by Rothwell, Kenneth S.

Table of Contents: “…. -- Hollywood's four seasons of Shakespeare. -- Laurence Olivier directs Shakespeare. -- Orson Welles: Shakespeare for the art houses. -- Electronic Shakespeare: from television to the web. -- Spectacle and song in Castellani and Zeffirelli. -- Shakespeare movies in the age of angst. -- Other Shakespeares: translation and expropriation. -- Shakespeare in the cinema of transgression, and beyond. -- The renaissance of Shakespeare in moving images.…”

Shakespeare films in the making : vision, production and reception / by Jackson, Russell, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: 'Such stuff as dreams are made on' -- Max Reinhardt's recurring dream: Hollywood, 1935 -- Pastoral-historical: Laurence Olivier's Henry V, 1944 -- Visions of Renaissance Italy: 'More stars than there are in heaven': MGM's Romeo and Juliet, 1936; Realism and romance: Renato Castellani's Giulietta e Romeo, 1954; Shakespeare's 'dream of Italy' and the generation gap: Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet, 1968.…”
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Shakespeare on film /

Table of Contents: “…Realizing Shakespeare on film / Jack J. Jorgens -- Laurence Olivier's Henry V / Anthony Davies -- Shakespeare and film: a question of perspective / Chatherine Belsey -- Radical potentiality and institutional closure / Graham Holderness -- Symbolism in Shakespeare film / John Collick -- Oliver, Hamlet, and Freud / Peter S. …”

Shakespeare and British World War Two film / by Sullivan, Garrett A., Jr

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Shakespeare's women & Claire Bloom /

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World-wide Shakespeares : local appropriations in film and performance /

Table of Contents: “…Defining local Shakespeares / Sonia Massai -- A branch of the blue Nile : Derek Walcott and the tropic of Shakespeare / Tobias D诲ing -- Political Pericles / Suzanne Gossett -- Shylock as crypto-Jew : a new Mexican adaptation of The merchant of Venice / Elizabeth Klein and Michael Shapiro -- Negotiating intercultural spaces : Much ado about nothing and Romeo and Juliet on the Chinese stage / Ruru Li -- 'It is the bloody business which informs thus ... ' local politics and performative praxis, Macbeth in India / Poonam Trivedi -- Relocating and dislocating Shakespeare in Robert Sturua's Twelfth night and Alexander Morfov's The tempest / Boika Sokolova -- "I am not bound to please thee with my answers" : The merchant of Venice on the German stage / Sabine Sch赬ting -- Katherina "humanized" : abusing the shrew on the Prague stage / Marcela Kostihov⡠-- Shooting the hero : the cinematic career of Henry V from Laurence Olivier to Philip Purser / Ton Hoenselaars -- Lamentable tragedy or black comedy? …”

Shakespeare and the English-speaking cinema / by Jackson, Russell, 1949-

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Performing King Lear : Gielgud to Russell Beale / by Croall, Jonathan

Table of Contents: “…FC; Performing King Lear; Related Titles; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 A Stage History; 2 The First of the Moderns: John Gielgud, Randle Ayrton, Donald Wolfit, Laurence Olivier; 3 At the Old Vic: William Devlin, John Gielgud; 4 A Stratford Decade: John Gielgud, Michael Redgrave, Charles Laughton, Paul Scofield; 5 For the Royal Shakespeare Company: Eric Porter, Donald Sinden, Michael Gambon; 6 Around the Regions: Michael Hordern, Kathryn Hunter, Warren Mitchell, Pete Postlethwaite, Tim Pigott-Smith.…”
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Modern Hamlets & their soliloquies / by Maher, Mary Zenet

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Shakespeare in the movies : from the silent era to Shakespeare in love / by Brode, Douglas, 1943-

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