UID:
almafu_9959241518402883
Format:
1 online resource (225 p.)
ISBN:
1-4081-4401-8
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1-4081-4400-X
Series Statement:
Screen adaptations
Content:
This close study of film adaptations of King Lear looks at several different versions (mainstream, art-house and cinematic 'offshoots'') and discusses: the literary text in its historical context, key themes and dominant readings of the text, how the text is adapted for screen and how adaptations have changed our reading of the original text. There are many references to the literary text and screenplays and the book also features quotations from directors and critics. There is plenty of discursive material here to support student work on both film and literature courses.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Part One: Literary contexts -- 'The wheel is come full circle': origins and new directions -- Recycled narratives -- 'This great stage of fools': King Lear in performance -- Dominant readings of King Lear: a tale of redemption or fall? -- The adaptation debate -- Part Two: Production contexts -- From play text to silver screen -- Screen Lears: an overview -- The changing face of King Lear -- New ways of reading screen Lears -- Part Three: Readings of key versions -- From the canon to Hollywood -- East meets West: King Lear and the canon. Peter Brook's King Lear (1971): ' a Hollywood showman's nightmare' -- On the road: reclaiming Kozinstev's Korol Lir (1970) -- Chaos on the Western frontier: Akira Kurosawa's Ran (1985) -- King Lear and genre cinema -- King Lear as western elegy: Ed Dmytryk's Broken Lance (1954) -- King Lear and the urban gangster movie: the 'tragic' gangster -- Displacing the patriarchal family: Joseph Mankiewicz's House of Strangers (1949) -- Mafia father figures: Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather trilogy (1972, 1974, 1990) -- Gangster Lear as morality tale: Don Boyd's My Kingdom (2001) -- King Lear as melodrama: Jocelyn Moorhouse's A Thousand Acres (1997) -- King Lear goes art house: acts of reconstruction -- 'Meantime we shall express our darker purpose': Jean-Luc Godard's King Lear (1987) -- 'Radical art phalanx' versus 'a clever flag of PR convenience': Kristian Levring's The King is Alive (2000) -- Part 4: The afterlife .. -- The afterlife of King Lear: recent developments in the visual medium -- Adaptation: the debate goes on.
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Also published in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4081-0592-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-10605-3
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.5040/9781408167168
