Shakespeare, film studies, and the visual cultures of modernity /

Guneratne, Anthony R.

Shakespeare, film studies, and the visual cultures of modernity / Anthony R. Guneratne. - 1st ed. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. - xx, 346 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-309) and index.

What's in a name? or, Something like an introduction -- Reconstituting King John : Victorian theatrical photorealism and the protocinema of adaptation -- Featuring the bard : Frederick Warde's Shakespeare and the transformation of American cinema -- The exfoliating folio, or, Transnational and international avant-gardes from Bernhardt's Hamlets to Hollywood's Europeans -- Genre, style, and the politique des auteurs : Orson Welles versus "William Shakespeare" -- Six authors in search of a text : the Shakespeares of Van Sant, Branagh, Godard, Pasolini, Greenaway, and Luhrmann.

9781403967886 1403967881

2007036160


Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Film and video adaptations.


Film adaptations--History and criticism.
Motion pictures--History.

PR3093 / .G86 2008

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