English Drama - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, English Drama - 16th-17th Century - Elizabethan & Jacobean Eras - Shakespeare - Literary Criticism, Film History & Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Literary Adaptations to Film

Shakespeare in the Cinema

Name: Shakespeare in the Cinema
Author: Stephen M. Buhler
ISBN: 9780791451403

by Stephen M. Buhler

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Synopsis

Offering a comprehensive look at the strategies that filmmakers have employed in adapting Shakespeares plays to the cinema, this book investigates what the task of Shakespearean adaptation reveals about film in general and focuses on patterns and approaches shared by various cinematic works. Buhler provides concise histories of each general strategy, which include non-illusionistic cinema, documentary interpretations, mass-market productions, transgressive and transnational cinema, and approaches that see film as either distinct from the stage or as an extension of theatrical traditions. The book spans more than a century of film, starting with the 1899 King John and extending through Michael Hoffmans A Midsummer Nights Dream, Julie Taymors Titus, and later releases.