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

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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.…”