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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 31
Page 36
... sound , that reverber- ating call for community - later echoed by Lear's own howls - delineates the vast space of Kozintsev's world as much as the visuals themselves do . The audience imaginatively follows the invisible route of sound ...
... sound , that reverber- ating call for community - later echoed by Lear's own howls - delineates the vast space of Kozintsev's world as much as the visuals themselves do . The audience imaginatively follows the invisible route of sound ...
Page 122
... sound of the horn , a sound that calls for community , for a fight against a wave of destruction seemingly impossible to halt . It is the sound of hope for humankind . The next time we see Lear , he is crawling through the grass picking ...
... sound of the horn , a sound that calls for community , for a fight against a wave of destruction seemingly impossible to halt . It is the sound of hope for humankind . The next time we see Lear , he is crawling through the grass picking ...
Page 152
... Sound : B. Khutoryanski . In Russian with English subtitles . 17. King Lear ( Koroľ Lir ) —Lenfilm , released by Artkino Pictures , 1970. Sov- scope . Screen adaptation : Grigory Kozintsev , from the Russian - language translation by ...
... Sound : B. Khutoryanski . In Russian with English subtitles . 17. King Lear ( Koroľ Lir ) —Lenfilm , released by Artkino Pictures , 1970. Sov- scope . Screen adaptation : Grigory Kozintsev , from the Russian - language translation by ...
Contents
Through the Machine | 3 |
Patterns of Viewing in Cinematic Space | 12 |
Dynamics of Miseenscène | 33 |
Copyright | |
8 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
action activity alienation appear audience battle becomes begins Brook calls camera castle chapter character cinematic close close-up context continues contrast create critical cuts Desdemona direct director drama dynamic elements enters experience exposes expression face Falstaff figure film filmic filmmaker finally focus follows forces function Ghost gives Hamlet hand hear Henry hero human Iago imaginative inside isolate King King Lear Kozintsev Lear Lear's look Macbeth medium mind moment moments move movement multiple murder nature observe offers Olivier Olivier's opening operates Orson Othello performance perspective picture play political present production realize relationship Richard scene screen sense sequence shadow Shakespeare shot shows simultaneous soliloquy sound space spatial field speaks specific spectator speech stage stand storm subjective suggests takes technique temporal tension theater theatrical tion tragedy University Press visual voice-over Welles's witness York