Screening Shakespeare in the twenty-first century
This bold new collection offers an innovative discussion of Shakespeare on screen after the millennium. Cutting-edge, and fully up-to-date, it surveys the rich field of Bardic film representations, from Michael Almereyda's Hamlet to the BBC 'Shakespea(Re)-Told' season, from Michael Ra...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
c2006
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| Summary: | This bold new collection offers an innovative discussion of Shakespeare on screen after the millennium. Cutting-edge, and fully up-to-date, it surveys the rich field of Bardic film representations, from Michael Almereyda's Hamlet to the BBC 'Shakespea(Re)-Told' season, from Michael Radford's The Merchant of Venice to Peter Babakitis' Henry V. In addition to offering in-depth analyses of all the major productions, Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century includes reflections upon the less well-known filmic 'Shakespeares', which encompass cinema advertisements, appropriations, |
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| Item Description: | Includes index "Early versions of some of these chapters were given as papers at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne meeting of the British Shakespeare Association" |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (225 p.) Issued also in print |
| ISBN: | 0-7486-3008-2 1-280-64323-4 9786610643233 |