This book explores Shakespeare films as interpretations of Shakespeare's plays as well as interpreting the place of Shakespeare on screen, within the classroom, and within the English curriculum. Shakespeare on screen is evaluated both in relation to the play texts and in relation to the realms of popular film culture. The book focuses on how Shakespeare is manipulated in film and television through the representation of violence, gender, sexuality, race, and nationalism. DeborahCartmell discusses a wide range of films, including Orson Welles' Othello (1952), Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books (1991), Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1996) and John Madden's Shakespeare in Love (1998).
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'The text sets adaptation in the context of wider issues of culture and identity relevant to any module on Shakespeare.' - John Marland, College of Ripon & York St John 'The book is more student-orientated than the usual range on Shakespeare and film, as well as being critically challenging. A rewarding book for undergraduates and a good starting place for postgraduates.' - Maria Jones, University of Wolverhampton 'This is an excellent book, which I will strongly recommend to my students.' - David Olive, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Deborah Cartmell is Principal Lecturer, Department of English, De Montfort University.
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While very clearly written, this book disappoints both in the brevity with which it treats its subject and in the simplistic arguments it makes. The author is upset that filmmakers have not listened to academic (politically correct) critics. Branagh is bashed for being sexist, racist, you name it. Cartmell's book could be pedagogically useful, however, in creating discussion and debate among high school and college students.
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Most studies of adaptation confine themselves to the novel, alerting us to the ways in which the nineteenth-century realist novel, especially, lends itself to cinematic reworking. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nunnery scene, painted curtain, play text, film adaptations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kenneth Branagh, Laurence Olivier, Friar Laurence, King Lear, Jane Brown, Branagh's Henry, Don Pedro, Peter Greenaway, Wilson Knight, Derek Jacobi, Titus Andronicus, Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing, Emma Thompson, Lady Macbeth, Mel Gibson, Olivier's Hamlet, Peter Brook, Theatre of Blood, United States, Darth Vader, Don John, John Collick, Michael Williams, Orson Welles, Star Wars New!
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Most studies of adaptation confine themselves to the novel, alerting us to the ways in which the nineteenth-century realist novel, especially, lends itself to cinematic reworking. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nunnery scene, painted curtain, play text, film adaptations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kenneth Branagh, Laurence Olivier, Friar Laurence, King Lear, Jane Brown, Branagh's Henry, Don Pedro, Peter Greenaway, Wilson Knight, Derek Jacobi, Titus Andronicus, Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing, Emma Thompson, Lady Macbeth, Mel Gibson, Olivier's Hamlet, Peter Brook, Theatre of Blood, United States, Darth Vader, Don John, John Collick, Michael Williams, Orson Welles, Star Wars New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare on 27 pages
- Romeo And Juliet (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Saddleback Classics) by William Shakespeare on 26 pages
- Romeo and Juliet (Simply Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on 26 pages
- Romeo and Juliet (Penguin Readers, Level 3) by William Shakespeare on 26 pages
- Much Ado About Nothing (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare on 23 pages
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- Theatrical Translation and Film Adaptation: A Practitioner's View (Topics in Translation) by Phyllis Zatlin on 4 pages
- Shakespeare's Violated Bodies: Stage and Screen Performance by Pascale Aebischer on page 99, page 111, and Back Matter
- Shakespeare's Histories: A Guide to Criticism (Blackwell Guides to Criticism) by Emma Smith on page 249, and page 250
- Shakespeare After Mass Media by Prof. Richard Burt in Front Matter, and page 325
- Titus Andronicus (The New Cambridge Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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