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.
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2020.
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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.