| Description |
viii, 184 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
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Film focus
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A Spectrum book
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| Contents |
Introduction / Charles W. Eckert -- Merely players / Ian Johnson -- Shakespeare, the imaginary cinema and the pre-cinema / Henri Lemaitre -- Finding Shakespeare on film : from an interview with Peter Brook / Geoffrey Reeves -- A Midsummer night's dream (1935). Film reality : cinema and the theatre / Allardyce Nicoll -- Films of a moonstruck world / Richard Watts, Jr. -- Henry V (1944). Henry V / James Agee -- Henry V / Bosley Crowther -- Hamlet (1948). Prince of shreds and patches / Mary McCarthy -- From school in Wittenberg / Peter Alexander -- Macbeth (1948). Macbeth; or, The magical depths / Claude Beylie -- Othello (1951). Review of Othello / Andre Bazin -- From Put money in thy purse / Micheal MacLiammoir -- Julius Caesar (1953). Role of the technical adviser / P. M. Pasinetti -- Romeo and Juliet (1954). Castellani's Romeo and Juliet : intention and response / Paul A. Jorgensen -- In fair Verona / Roy Walker -- Romeo and Juliet (1954). Romeo and Juliet / Gavin Lambert -- Othello (1955). Othello / Derek Prouse -- Richard III (1955). Olivier's Richard III-- a reevaluation / Constance Brown -- Hamlet (1964). Hamlet / Michael Kustow -- Hamlet / Dwight Macdonald -- Screened culture-- letter from Venice / Gabriel Pearson, Eric Rhode -- Othello (1965). Pearl throwing free style / John Simon -- The taming of the shrew (1966). Taming of the shrew / Carey Harrison -- Chimes at midnight (1966). Chimes at midnight / Pierre Billard -- Filmography (p. 165-178) -- Bibliography (p. 179-181). |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Film and video adaptations.
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English drama -- Film and video adaptations.
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Motion picture plays -- Technique.
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Film adaptations.
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| Added Author |
Eckert, Charles W.
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| ISBN |
0138076448 |
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0138076367 (pbk) |
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