Shakespeare, the Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, and Video

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Lynda E. Boose, Richard Burt
Psychology Press, 1997 - Art - 277 pages

Shakespeare, The Movie brings together an impressive line-up of contributors to consider how Shakespeare has been adapted on film, TV, and video, and explores the impact of this popularization on the canonical status of Shakespeare.
Taking a fresh look at the Bard an his place in the movies, Shakespeare, The Movie includes a selection of what is presently available in filmic format to the Shakespeare student or scholar, ranging across BBC television productions, filmed theatre productions, and full screen adaptations by Kenneth Branagh and Franco Zeffirelli. Films discussed include:
* Amy Heckerling's Clueless
* Gus van Sant's My Own Private Idaho
* Branagh's Henry V
* Baz Luhrman's William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
* John McTiernan's Last Action Hero
* Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books
* Zeffirelli's Hamlet.

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Contents

RACEING OTHELLO REENGENDERING WHITEOUT
23
BRANAGHS DIRTY HARRY V AND
45
RICHARD III
67
THE ARTISTRY
80
SHAKESPEARE WALLAH AND COLONIAL SPECULARITY
95
THE 1953 CBS KING LEAR
121
MAPPING KING LEAR
135
A SHREW FOR THE TIMES
148
SHAKESPEARE IN THE AGE OF POSTMECHANICAL
169
GROSSLY GAPING VIEWERS AND JONATHAN MILLERS
186
ASTA NIELSEN AND THE MYSTERY OF HAMLET
215
THE LOVE THAT DARE NOT SPEAK SHAKESPEARES
240
Index
269
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