Devouring 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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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2017
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Remembrance of Things Past
- 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 Greenaway's Prospero's Books
- Five English Screen Directors' Approaches to Cross-Dressing in As You Like It and Twelfth Night
- Propaganda and the Other in Branagh's Henry V and Fiennes's Coriolanus
- PART FOUR MUSIC AND MEMORY
- "Sigh No More Ladies": Shakespeare, Branagh, and Whedon Tackle Issues of Gender and Fidelity in Much Ado About Nothing
- "O Mistress Mine": Intercutting in Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night
- Nostalgia in Hoffman's William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Branagh's Love's Labour's Lost
- Ariel's Singing Body as Interpreted by Greenaway and Taymor
