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Genre and Beyond - A Film Studies Series
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
SERIES FOREWORD - Genre and Beyond: A Film Studies Series
Preface
CHAPTER ONE - Introduction: The Shakespeare Film and Genre
Language and the Literary Adaptation
The Shakespeare Film as Star Vehicle
The Shakespeare Film and Hollywood Genres
Mode of Production
Notes
CHAPTER TWO - Finding the Playwright on Film
“The Great Globe Itself”: Filming Shakespeare’s Theater in Henry V (1944) and Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Shakespeare Is in the Details
Notes
CHAPTER THREE - The Challenges of Romeo and Juliet
The Grand Style: Romeo and Juliet at MGM
Romeo and Juliet in Italy
William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet
Notes
CHAPTER FOUR - In and Out of Hollywood: Shakespeare in the Studio Era
Film Gris: Julius Caesar (1953)
Laurence Olivier: Shakespeare and the “Art Cinema”
Orson Welles versus Shakespeare
Notes
CHAPTER 5 - Branagh and the Sons of Ken
An Accessible Shakespeare: Henry V (1989), Much Ado about Nothing (1993), and Love’s Labour’s Lost (2000)
The Shakespeare Film as Costume Epic: The “Complete” Hamlet
In Branagh’s Wake: Othello (1995), Richard III (1995), Twelfth Night (1996), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999)
Coda: Branagh Redux?
Notes
CHAPTER SIX - Electronic Shakespeares: Televisual Histories
Shakespeare Live(s): The Hallmark Years
An Anglo-American Venture: “The Shakespeare Plays”
The BBC Style: Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet
An Alternative BBC: Jane Howell’s Titus Andronicus
After the BBC: The National Theatre King Lear
Notes
CHAPTER SEVEN - Post-Shakespeares
It’s So New, It’s Old: Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet
“A Wilderness of Tigers”: Julie Taymor’s Titus
Prospero’s Books: From Text to Hypertext
Coda: Why Shakespeare, Why Now?
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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