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1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 219 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511553097
Content:
Shakespeare's plays provide wonderfully challenging material for the film maker. While acknowledging that dramatic experiences for theatre and cinema audiences are significantly different, this book reveals some of the special qualities of cinema's dramatic language in the film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays by four directors - Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa - each of whom has a distinctly different approach to a film representation. Davies begins his study with a comparison of theatrical and cinematic space showing that the dramatic resources of cinema are essentially spatial. The central chapters focus on Laurence Olivier's Henry V, Hamlet and Richard III; Orson Welles' Macbeth, Othello and Chimes at Midnight; Peter Brook's King Lear and Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood. Davies discusses the dramatic problems posed by the source plays for these films for the film maker and he examines how these films influenced later theatrical stagings. He concludes with an examination of the demands that distinguish the work of the Shakespearean stage actor from that of his counterpart in film
Content:
Theatrical and cinematic space -- Laurence Olivier's Henry V -- Laurence Olivier's Hamlet -- Laurence Olivier's Richard III -- Orson Welles's Macbeth -- Orson Welles's Othello -- Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight -- Peter Brook's King Lear and Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood -- The film actor
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521335089
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521399135
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Davies, Anthony Filming Shakespeare's plays Cambridge u.a. : Cambridge University Press, 1988 ISBN 0521335086
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
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English Studies
Keywords:
Olivier, Laurence 1907-1989
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Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
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Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
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Welles, Orson 1915-1985
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Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
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Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
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Drama
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Filmografie
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511553097
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