Shakespeare on Film: Such Things as Dreams are Made of (Short Cuts) [Paperback]

Carolyn Jess-Cooke (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1905674147 | ISBN-13: 978-1905674145 | Publication Date: September 13, 2007

Since the birth of Shakespearean cinema in 1899, there have been close to 500 film adaptations of the Bard's work in which he has been taken to outer space, downtown Mumbai, and feudal Japan. Exploring this astonishing array from early cinema to the present, Shakespeare on Film: Such Things as Dreams are Made of analyzes Shakespearean cinema in four major contexts: performance, adaptation, film style, and popularization, interpreting his unique ability to penetrate cultures, mindsets, and languages across the world. The volume reveals Shakespeare's continuing currency in contemporary culture and critically examines the dialogues between cultures, mediums, and historical periods.

(4/1/08)

Editorial Reviews

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[A] wonderfully intelligent, concise, and helpful book.

(Literature/Film Quarterly )

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Those who know Shakespeare, films and theory, will marvel at this wonderfully intelligent, concise and helpful book. Those who are beginning will be drawn in by its clarity and its abundant insights.

(Professor Richard Vela, University of North Carolina at Pembroke )

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Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Wallflower Press (September 13, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1905674147
• ISBN-13: 978-1905674145
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #843,861 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Carolyn Jess-Cooke was born in 1978 to a musical family in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is an award-winning author of poems and novels for adults, as well as four non-fiction books in the areas of Shakespeare, cinema, and film sequels. Her first poetry collection, Inroads, won the Tyrone Guthrie Prize, an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors, a Northern Promise Award, and was shortlisted for the New London Poetry Prize. Her bestselling novel, The Guardian Angel's Journal, was published in 2011 in the UK & Commonwealth (Piatkus), USA (Guideposts), and in 19 other languages.