Still in Movement: Shakespeare on ScreenIn Still in Movement, Buchman explores the ways in which Shakespeare's plays function as products of cinematic technique and the ways in which the films organize the material of the drama to activate a particular imaginative response. To that end, he focuses on key moments in the films of Laurence Olivier (Henry V, Hamlet, and Richard III), Orson Welles (Macbeth, Othello, and Chimes at Midnight), Grigory Kozintav (Hamlet and King Lear), Roman Polanski (Macbeth) and Peter Brook (King Lear). He examines how these films clarify the process according to spatial and temporal structures of the medium. Buchman's approach is unique in the area of Shakespeare on film; he covers specific topics and addresses questions pertinent to those topics not through individual essays on any one film, play, or filmmaker, but through a comparative treatment of key sequences from a number of different films. |
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... Shakespeare's own dramaturgical design , and parallels in his camera work ... characters who repre- sent the figure in its maturest form.10 Indeed , as ... theater audi- ence of conspirators . Shakespeare's vice - figure talks to his ...
... Shakespeare's own dramaturgical design , and parallels in his camera work ... characters who repre- sent the figure in its maturest form.10 Indeed , as ... theater audi- ence of conspirators . Shakespeare's vice - figure talks to his ...
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... Shakespeare's drama ( and , as such , it can defamiliarize us from old ways of seeing the plays ) . We travel the lines of tension and conflict in the plays , within the consciousness of individual characters as well as among many ...
... Shakespeare's drama ( and , as such , it can defamiliarize us from old ways of seeing the plays ) . We travel the lines of tension and conflict in the plays , within the consciousness of individual characters as well as among many ...
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... character , for " one like ourselves " ( and the concomitant sense that pity and fear are ... Shakespeare film , though problematic in many ways , is a particularly rich ... plays I discuss in the study are taken from this collection . 10 ...
... character , for " one like ourselves " ( and the concomitant sense that pity and fear are ... Shakespeare film , though problematic in many ways , is a particularly rich ... plays I discuss in the study are taken from this collection . 10 ...
Contents
Through the Machine | 3 |
Patterns of Viewing in Cinematic Space | 12 |
Dynamics of Miseenscène | 33 |
Copyright | |
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