A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen ( Concise Companions to Literature and Culture )

Publication series ：Concise Companions to Literature and Culture

Author： Diana E. Henderson  

Publisher： John Wiley & Sons Inc‎

Publication year： 2008

E-ISBN: 9781405148887

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781405115100

Subject： J909 Film, TV Art

Language： ENG

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Description

This Concise Companion presents a multidisciplinary range of approaches to a vast multimedia subject, Shakespeare on screen.

  • Draws on the latest thinking in cultural studies, communications, and comparative media, in dialogue with literary, theatrical and filmic approaches.
  • Organised around themes, such as authorship and collaboration, theatricality, sex and violence, globalization and history.
  • Offers readers a variety of accessible routes into the subject of Shakespeare on screen.
  • Also enables readers to explore fundamental topics in the study of literature and culture more broadly, such as the relationships between elite and popular culture, art and the marketplace, text and image.
  • Includes suggestions for further reading, a bibliography, a filmography, a chronology and a thorough index.

Chapter

Contents

pp.：  1 – 7

Acknowledgments

pp.：  7 – 9

Notes on Contributors

pp.：  9 – 10

Bibliographical Note

pp.：  10 – 13

Chronology

pp.：  13 – 14

Introduction: Through a Camera, Darkly

pp.：  14 – 27

1 Authorship: Getting Back to Shakespeare: Whose Film is it Anyway?

pp.：  27 – 34

2 Cinema Studies: "Thou Dost Usurp Authority": Beerbohm Tree, Reinhardt, Olivier, Welles, and the Politics of Adapting Shakespeare

pp.：  34 – 57

3 Theatricality: Stage, Screen, and Nation: Hamlet and the Space of History

pp.：  57 – 80

4 The Artistic Process: Learning from Campbell Scott’s Hamlet

pp.：  80 – 103

5 Cinematic Performance: Spectacular Bodies: Acting + Cinema + Shakespeare

pp.：  103 – 122

6 Gender Studies: Shakespeare, Sex, and Violence: Negotiating Masculinities in Branagh’s Henry V and Taymor’s Titus

pp.：  122 – 138

7 Globalization: Figuring the Global/Historical in Filmic Shakespearean Tragedy

pp.：  138 – 159

8 Cross-Cultural Interpretation: Reading Kurosawa Reading Shakespeare

pp.：  159 – 181

9 Popular Culture: Will of the People: Recent Shakespeare Film Parody and the Politics of Popularization

pp.：  181 – 202

10 Television Studies: Brushing Up Shakespeare: Relevance and Televisual Form

pp.：  202 – 223

11 Remediation: Hamlet among the Pixelvisionaries: Video Art, Authenticity, and "Wisdom" in Almereyda’s Hamlet

pp.：  223 – 242

Afterword: Unending Revels: Visual Pleasure and Compulsory Shakespeare

pp.：  242 – 264

Select Bibliography

pp.：  264 – 276

Index

pp.：  276 – 279

LastPages

pp.：  279 – 290

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