Screen LibraryDevouring time : nostalgia in contemporary Shakespearean screen adaptations /
"From Kenneth Branagh's ground-breaking Henry V to Justin Kurzel's haunting Macbeth, many modern filmmakers have adapted Shakespeare for the big screen. Their translations of Renaissance plays to modern cinema both highlight and comment on contemporary culture and attitudes to art, id...
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McGill-Queen's University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Montreal : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"From Kenneth Branagh's ground-breaking Henry V to Justin Kurzel's haunting Macbeth, many modern filmmakers have adapted Shakespeare for the big screen. Their translations of Renaissance plays to modern cinema both highlight and comment on contemporary culture and attitudes to art, identity, and the past. A dynamic analysis of twenty-seven films adapted from Shakespeare's works, Philippa Sheppard's Devouring Time addresses a wide range of topics, including gender, ritual, music, setting, rhetoric, and editing. She argues that the directors' choice to adapt these four-hundred-year old plays i |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 426 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9780773550209 (paperback) : 0773550208 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | PR3093 |
| CLC: | J905.561 |
| Call Number: | J905.561/S549 |
| Contents: | Part one: defining terms. Why Shakespeare films now? ; The drive to realism in Shakespearean adaptation to film -- Part two: remembering origins. Shakespeare's prologues on page and screen ; Nostalgia for the stage in Shakespearean films ; Death rituals in Shakespeare, Almereyda, and Luhrmann -- Part three: disguise, genre, and play. Gothic aspects of Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet ; Art and the grotesque in Julie Taymor's Titus and Peter Grennaway's Prospero books ; Five English screen directors' approaches to cross-dressing in As you like it and Twelfth night ; Propaganda and the other in Branag |