The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare on screen /

The arrival of the film industry's sound era in the late 1920s quickly consigned silent film to being 'yesterday's thing.' As a result, the cans containing gently crumbling or spontaneously combusting prints of silent films were not a mainstream archiving priority for some time.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Jackson, Russell, 1949- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Series:Cambridge companions to literature.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Shakespeare and the film industry of the pre-sound era / Judith Buchanan
  • Adaptation and the marketing of Shakespeare in classical Hollywood / Deborah Cartmell
  • Shakespeare 'live' / Peter Holland
  • Shakespearean cinemas/global directions / Mark Thornton Burnett
  • The comedies on screen / Ramona Wray
  • The environments of tragedy on screen : Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth / Peter Kirwan
  • Two tragedies of love : Romeo and Juliet and Othello / Victoria Bladen
  • 'Sad stories of the death of kings'
  • the hollow crown and the Shakespearean history play on screen / Kinga Földváry
  • The Roman plays on film / Peter J. Smith
  • Screening Shakespearean fantasy and romance in A midsummer night's dream and The tempest / Anthony Guy Patricia
  • Questions of racism : The merchant of Venice and Othello / Russell Jackson
  • 'A wail in the silence' : feminism, sexuality, and final meanings in King Lear films by Grigorii Kozintsev, Peter Brook, and Akira Kurosawa / Courtney Lehmann
  • Violence, tragic and comic, in Coriolanus and The taming of the shrew / Patricia Lennox
  • The Shakespeare films of Orson Welles / Emma Smith
  • Kurosawa's Shakespeare : mute heavens, merging world or the metaphors of cruelty / Anne-Marie Costantini-Cornède
  • Zeffirelli's Shakespearean motion pictures : living monuments / Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin
  • Kenneth Branagh : mainstreaming Shakespeare in movie theatres / Sarah Hatchuel
  • Remaking Shakespeare in India : Vishal Bhardwaj's films / Poonam Trivedi.