Author: Rothwell, Kenneth Sprague
Title: A History of Shakespeare on Screen : A Century of Film and Television
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (2004). 2nd edition, orig.boards. 23x15cm, xvii,380 pp. Textual photo illustrations. Some minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Shakespeare in silence: in search of the 'best class of people'; Hollywood's four seasons of Shakespeare: Kate is heard as well as seen; Laurence Olivier: marketing Shakespeare for the better classes; Orson Welles, auteur: Shakespeare for the arthouses; Electronic Shakespeare: From television to the web; Spectacle and song in Castellani and Zeffirelli; Shakespeare movies in the age of angst; Other Shakespeares: translation and expropriation; Shakespeare in the cinema of transgression, and beyond; The renaissance of Shakespeare in moving images; Shakespeare in love, in love with Shakespeare: the adoration after the millenium. ["A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television chronicles how film-makers have re-imagined Shakespeare's plays in moving images from their earliest exhibition in nickelodeons to today's multi- million dollar productions shown in multiplexes. Topics covered include the silent era, Hollywood in the 1930s, the films of Laurence Olivier and Orson Welles, the transgressive cinema of Jarman and Greenaway, and the renaissance of the Shakespeare film with Kenneth Branagh in the 1990s. The book is truly international in scope, looking not only at screen adaptations in the UK and the US but also at the films of Kozintsev, Kurosawa, Zeffirelli and others. A filmography, bibliography and index of names make it invaluable as a one-volume reference work for specialists, while its accessible style will ensure that it appeals to enthusiasts and film-goers as well as to a more academic audience." - Publisher's

Keywords: Cinema History, William Shakspeare, Motion Pictures, Film Criticism, Television Drama, Technique, Adaptations, ,