Shakespeare, the movie : popularizing the plays on film, TV, and video /

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Boose, Lynda E., 1943-, Burt, Richard, 1954-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Shakespeare, the movie / Lynda E. Boose and Richard Burt
  • Totally clueless?: Shakespeare goes Hollywood in the 1990s / Lynda E. Boose and Richard Burt
  • Race-ing Othello, re-engendering white-out / Barbara Hodgdon
  • War is mud: Branagh's Dirty Harry V and the types of political ambiguity / Donald K. Hedrick
  • "Top of the world, Ma": Richard III and cinematic convention / James N. Loehlin
  • Popularizing Shakespeare: the artistry of Franco Zeffirelli / Robert Hapgood
  • Shakespeare Wallah and colonial specularity / Valerie Wayne.
  • Poetry in motion: animating Shakespeare / Laurie E. Osborne
  • When Peter met Orson: the 1953 CBS King Lear / Tony Howard
  • In search of nothing: mapping King Lear / Kenneth S. Rothwell
  • Shrew for the times / Diana E. Henderson
  • Shakespeare in the age of post-mechanical reproduction: sexual and electronic magic in Prospero's books / Peter S. Donaldson
  • Grossly gaping viewers and Jonathan Miller's Othello / Lynda E. Boose
  • Age cannot wither him: Warren Beatty's Bugsy as Hollywood Cleopatra / Katherine Eggert.
  • Asta Nielsen and the mystery of Hamlet / Ann Thompson
  • Family tree motel: subliming Shakespeare in my own private Idaho / Susan Wiseman
  • Love that dare not speak Shakespeare's name: new shakesqueer cinema / Richard Burt.