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Shakespeare and the Moving Image: The Plays on Film and Television
Anthony Davies
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Description for Shakespeare and the Moving Image: The Plays on Film and Television
Paperback. Essays on the best known film, television and video versions of Shakespeare's plays. Editor(s): Davies, Anthony; Wells, Stanley W. Num Pages: 278 pages, 22 b/w illus. 1 table. BIC Classification: APF; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 226 x 22. Weight in Grams: 438. Hardback, no dustjacket, in good condition. Front board loose. Decorated gilt covers
Towards the end of the 1980s it looked as if television had displaced cinema as the photographic medium for bringing Shakespeare to the modern audience. In recent years there has been a renaissance of Shakespearian cinema, including Kenneth Branagh's Henry V and Much Ado About Nothing, Franco Zeffirelli's Hamlet, Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books and Christine Edzard's As You Like It. In this volume a range of writers study the best known and most entertaining film, television and video versions of Shakespeare's plays. Particular attention is given to the work of Olivier, Zeffirelli and Kurosawa, and to the BBC Television series. ... Read more
Towards the end of the 1980s it looked as if television had displaced cinema as the photographic medium for bringing Shakespeare to the modern audience. In recent years there has been a renaissance of Shakespearian cinema, including Kenneth Branagh's Henry V and Much Ado About Nothing, Franco Zeffirelli's Hamlet, Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books and Christine Edzard's As You Like It. In this volume a range of writers study the best known and most entertaining film, television and video versions of Shakespeare's plays. Particular attention is given to the work of Olivier, Zeffirelli and Kurosawa, and to the BBC Television series. ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
278
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521435734
SKU
KRF0014168
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Reviews for Shakespeare and the Moving Image: The Plays on Film and Television
"Given the recent explosion of interest in Shakespeare on film, this strong collection (which includes Graham Holderness and Christopher McCullough's useful compendium of Shakespeare on film) offers an excellent and timely overview." SEL "Anthony Davies and Stanley Wells have assembled something like a compact encyclopedia of Shakepeare on film and video. ...the critical review and bibliography in ... Read more