Interpreting Shakespeare on Screen

United Kingdom: Macmillan Pub Ltd. New. 2000. Hardcover. 0333652118 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- 170 pages+ * TABLE OF CONTENTS: Shakespeare, Film and Violence: Doing Violence to Shakespeare * Shakespeare, Film and Gender: Critical and Filmic Representations of Hamlet * Shakespeare, Film and Sexuality: Politically Correct Sexuality in Film Adaptations of Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing * Shakespeare, Film and Race: Screening Othello and The Tempest * Shakespeare, Film and Nationalism: Henry V, the Movies * Conclusions * Appendix One: Student Exercises * Appendix Two: Evaluations -- DESCRIPTION: -- This book explores Shakespeare films as interpretations of Shakespeare's plays as well as interpreting the place of Shakespeare on screen, within the classroom, and within the English curriculum. Shakespeare on screen is evaluated both in relation to the play texts and in relation to the realms of popular film culture. The book focuses on how Shakespeare is manipulated in film and television through the representation of violence, gender, sexuality, race, and nationalism. Deborah Cartmell discusses a wide range of films, including Orson Welles' Othello (1952), Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books (1991), Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1996) and John Madden's Shakespeare in Love (1998). - AUTHOR - Deborah Cartmell is Principal Lecturer, Department of English, De Montfort University. -- with a bonus offer-- .