| Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare's Hamlet: The Relationship Between Text and Film Contributor(s): Crowl, Samuel (Author), Cartmell, Deborah (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1408129558 ISBN-13: 9781408129555 Publisher: Arden Shakespeare OUR PRICE: $34.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - Reference - Drama | Shakespeare - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 822.33 |
| LCCN: 2013035127 |
| Series: Screen Adaptations |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5" W x 7.7" (0.40 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Hamlet is the most often produced play in the western literary canon, and a fertile global source for film adaptation. Samuel Crowl, a noted scholar of Shakespeare on film, unpacks the process of adapting from text to screen through concentrating on two sharply contrasting film versions of Hamlet by Laurence Olivier (1948) and Kenneth Branagh (1996). The films' socio-political contexts are explored, and the importance of their screenplay, film score, setting, cinematography and editing examined. Offering an analysis of two of the most important figures in the history of film adaptations of Shakespeare, this study seeks to understand a variety of cinematic approaches to translating Shakespeare's "words, words, words+? into film's particular grammar and rhetoric |
Contributor Bio(s): Cartmell, Deborah: - Deborah Cartmell is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Adaptations at De Montfort University, UK, founder and co-editor of the international journals Shakespeare and Adaptation, founder and former Chair of the Association of Adaptation Studies.Crowl, Samuel: - Samuel Crowl is Professor of English at Ohio University where he has taught since 1970. He has twice been honoured for distinguished teaching and served as Dean of University College from 1981-92. Crowl has held an Observership with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has published and lectured widely on performance aspects of Shakespeare. Crowl is the author of Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare's Hamlet (due for publication 2014) and many articles on performance aspects of Shakespeare in such journals as: Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Survey and Shakespeare Bulletin. |