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Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare's Hamlet: The Relationship between Text and Film
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare's Hamlet: The Relationship between Text and Film
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Samuel Crowl
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Series | Screen Adaptations |
Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:176 | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129 |
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Category/Genre | Film theory and criticism Literary studies - c 1500 to c 1800 |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781408129555
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Classifications | Dewey:822.33 |
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Audience | Professional & Vocational | |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Imprint |
The Arden Shakespeare
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Publication Date |
30 January 2014 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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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.
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