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Screen Adaptations

By Samuel Crowl

Screen Adaptations Contemporary literature

Screen Adaptations

By Samuel Crowl

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Hamlet is the most often produced play in the western literary canon, and a fertile global source for film adaptation. Samuel Crowl, a noted scholar of Shakespeare on film, unpacks the process of adapting from text to screen through concentrating on two sharply contrasting film versions of Hamlet by Laurence Olivier (1948) and Kenneth Branagh (1996). The films' socio-political contexts are explored, and the importance of their screenplay, film score, setting, cinematography and editing examined. Offering an analysis of two of the most important figures in the history of film adaptations of Shakespeare, this study seeks to understand a variety of cinematic approaches to translating Shakespeare's "words, words, words" into film's particular grammar and rhetoric
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
176
Release Date:
2014-01-30
Publication Date:
2014-01-30
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1472538919
ISBN13:
9781472538918
Weight:
287 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
209 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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