Cinematic Hamlet

Author : Patrick J. Cook
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821443658
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cinematic Hamlet written by Patrick J. Cook and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hamlet has inspired four outstanding film adaptations that continue to delight a wide and varied audience and to offer provocative new interpretations of Shakespeare’s most popular play. Cinematic Hamlet contains the first scene-by-scene analysis of the methods used by Laurence Olivier, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh, and Michael Almereyda to translate Hamlet into highly distinctive and remarkably effective films. Applying recent developments in neuroscience and psychology, Patrick J. Cook argues that film is a medium deploying an abundance of devices whose task it is to direct attention away from the film’s viewing processes and toward the object represented. Through careful analysis of each film’s devices, he explores the ways in which four brilliant directors rework the play into a radically different medium, engaging the viewer through powerful instinctive drives and creating audiovisual vehicles that support and complement Shakespeare’s words and story. Cinematic Hamlet will prove to be indispensable for anyone wishing to understand how these films rework Shakespeare into the powerful medium of film.

Author : Patrick J. Cook
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821419447
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cinematic Hamlet written by Patrick J. Cook and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinematic Hamlet contains the first scene-by-scene analysis of four outstanding film adaptations by Laurence Olivier, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh, and Michael Almereyda of Hamlet. Indispensable for anyone wishing to understand how these directors rework Shakespeare into the powerful medium of film.

Author : Mark Thornton Burnett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107135508
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 'Hamlet' and World Cinema written by Mark Thornton Burnett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals a rich cinematic history, discussing Hamlet films from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.

Author : Stephen M. Buhler
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791451403
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare in the Cinema written by Stephen M. Buhler and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive look at film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays.

Author : Michael A. Anderegg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742510920
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cinematic Shakespeare written by Michael A. Anderegg and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Anderegg investigates how Shakespeare films constitute an exciting & ever-changing film genre. He looks closely at films by Olivier, Welles, & Branagh, as well as postmodern Shakespeares & multiple adaptations over the years of 'Romeo and Juliet'.

Author : Anthony Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521399135
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Filming Shakespeare's Plays written by Anthony Davies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-06-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's plays provide wonderfully challenging material for the film maker. While acknowledging that dramatic experiences for theatre and cinema audiences are significantly different, this book reveals some of the special qualities of cinema's dramatic language in the film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays by four directors - Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa - each of whom has a distinctly different approach to a film representation. Davies begins his study with a comparison of theatrical and cinematic space showing that the dramatic resources of cinema are essentially spatial. The central chapters focus on Laurence Olivier's Henry V, Hamlet and Richard III; Orson Welles' Macbeth, Othello and Chimes at Midnight; Peter Brook's King Lear and Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood. Davies discusses the dramatic problems posed by the source plays for these films for the film maker and he examines how these films influenced later theatrical stagings. He concludes with an examination of the demands that distinguish the work of the Shakespearean stage actor from that of his counterpart in film.

Author : Judith R. Buchanan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131787496X
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare on Film written by Judith R. Buchanan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the earliest days of the cinema to the present, Shakespeare has offered a tempting bank of source material than the film industry has been happy to plunder. Shakespeare on Film deftly examines an extensive range of films that have emerged from the curious union of an iconic dramatist with a medium of mass appeal. The many films Buchanan studies are shown to be telling indicators of trends in Shakespearean performance interpretation, illuminating markers of developments in the film industry and culturally revealing about broader influences in the world beyond the movie theatre. As with other titles from the Inside Film series, the book is illustrated throughout with stills. Each chapter concludes with a list of suggested further reading in the field.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781671630550
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hamlet written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A morbid tragedy about mortality, madness, and murder, Hamlet follows the eponymous Prince of Denmark as he plots to avenge his father's murder at the hands of Claudius, Hamlet's uncle and the current king, who married Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. Haunted by a ghost and arguing with his girlfriend Ophelia, Hamlet struggles to take revenge, as delay and feigned insanity preoccupy him. Rounding out the cast are other famous figures, like Horatio, and Polonius, and of course, the Gravedigger, who finds the skull of "poor Yorick." Perhaps Shakespeare's most popular play, Hamlet.

Author : Keith Harrison
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319597434
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare, Bakhtin, and Film written by Keith Harrison and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how Bakhtin’s ideas can illuminate the compelling but uneasy fusion of Shakespeare and cinema. With a wide variety of tones, languages, cultural orientations, and thematic concerns, film directors have updated, translated, transposed, fragmented, parodied, and geographically re-situated Shakespeare. Keith Harrison illustrates how Bakhtin’s interlinked writings in various fields can fruitfully be applied to an understanding of how the ongoing responsiveness of filmmakers to Shakespeare’s historically remote words can shape self-expressive acts of co-authoring in another medium. Through the use of such Bakhtinian concepts as the chronotope, heteroglossia, the carnivalesque, and polyphony, Harrison details how filmmakers—faithful to their specific cultures, genders, geographies, and historical moments—dialogically locate their particularity through Shakespeare’s presence.

Author : Bernice W. Kliman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hamlet written by Bernice W. Kliman and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: