| Description |
xvii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Rare Visions -- Ch. 1. The Frame's the Thing: Franco Zeffirelli's Hamlet -- Ch. 2. The Voyeuristic Pleasures of Perversion: Orson Welles's Othello -- Ch. 3. Framing Ambiguity: Kenneth Branagh's Henry V -- Ch. 4. Breaking the Frame: Akira Kurosawa's Ran -- Ch. 5. Vivid Negativity: Richard Loncraine's Richard III -- Ch. 6. Utopian Revisioning of Falstaff's Tavern World: Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight and Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho -- Ch. 7. Playing on the Rim of the Frame: Kenneth Branagh's A Midwinter's Tale |
| Summary |
"Howlett draws on the aesthetics of frame theory of demonstrate how the viewer's expectations for understanding the genre of Shakespeare on film - as intertextual and conceptual frames that include Shakespeare's drama, the world, and the audience's ideals - can be manipulated by the director's cinematic techniques." "Emphasizing that the successful film can transform Shakespeare's text while remaining rooted in Shakespearean conceptions, Howlett raises the question of how directors and audiences understand the genre of Shakespeare on film and reveals how the medium alters the patterns through which the audience views Shakespeare's drama."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-242) and index |
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Includes filmography (pages [243]-247) |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Film adaptations.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Filmand video adaptations
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English drama -- Filmand video adaptations
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| Genre/Form |
Film adaptations.
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| LC no. |
98050057 |
| ISBN |
0821412477 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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