Beschreibung:
This book is the first in-depth cultural history of cinema's polyvalent and often contradictory appropriations of Shakespearean drama and performance traditions. The author argues that these adapatations have helped shape multiple aspects of film, from cinematic style to genre and narrative construction.
A look at the influence of Shakespearean adaptations on cinema.
Introduction Reconstituting King John Screening Hamlet's Aura Featuring the Bard Avant-garde Shakespeares Genre, Style, and the "Politique des Auteurs" in Orson Welles's Shakespeare Text, Intertext, Subtext and Post-Modern Approaches to Shakespeare