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Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare's Hamlet: The Relationship between Text and Film

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare's Hamlet: The Relationship between Text and Film
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Samuel Crowl
SeriesScreen Adaptations
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:176
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreFilm theory and criticism
Literary studies - c 1500 to c 1800
ISBN/Barcode 9781408129555
ClassificationsDewey:822.33
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint The Arden Shakespeare
Publication Date 30 January 2014
Publication Country United Kingdom

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

Author Biography

Samuel Crowl is Trustee Professor of English at Ohio University, USA. He is the author of several books on Shakespeare in performance including Shakespeare Observed, Shakespeare at the Cineplex, The Films of Kenneth Branagh and Shakespeare and Film. He has lectured at colleges and universities in the United States, England, Europe, and Africa and has been five times honored for distinguished teaching.