Screen LibraryMetanarrative functions of film genre in Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare films : strange bedfellows /
Kenneth Branagh is the most important contemporary figure in the production of filmed Shakespeare. His five feature-length Shakespeare films both created and represented the explosion of filmed Shakespeare adaptations that began in the 1990s. This book demonstrates Branagh's appeal to classical...
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
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| Publisher Address: | Newcastle upon Tyne : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Kenneth Branagh is the most important contemporary figure in the production of filmed Shakespeare. His five feature-length Shakespeare films both created and represented the explosion of filmed Shakespeare adaptations that began in the 1990s. This book demonstrates Branagh's appeal to classical film genres in order to meta-narrate for a popular audience the unfamiliar terrain of the Shakespearean original; it examines the debts Branagh owes, stylistically and structurally, to classically-defined generic modes. |
| Carrier Form: | vi, 144 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [131]-142) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781443812658 (hardback) : 144381265X (hardback) |
| Index Number: | PR3093 |
| CLC: | J905.561 |
| Call Number: | J905.561/M185 |
| Contents: | Introduction : Generic Shakespeare -- Chapter one : Henry V's body generic : picturing the king -- Chapter two : Much ado about genre : Branagh's screwball Shakespeare -- Chapter three : Swing time : Love's labour's lost and Branagh's Broadway melodies -- Conclusion : Don't call it a comeback : Branagh's As you like it. |