100 Shakespeare Films (Bfi Screen Guides) Paperback - 2007
by Daniel Rosenthal
From the rear cover
From Oscar-winning British classics to Hollywood musicals and Westerns, from Soviet epics to Bollywood thrillers, Shakespeare has inspired an almost infinite variety of films. Directors as diverse as Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh, Baz Luhrmann and Julie Taymor have transferred Shakespeare's plays from stage to screen with unforgettable results. Spanning a century of cinema, from a silent short of "The Tempest" (1907) to Kenneth Branagh's "As You Like It" (2006), Daniel Rosenthal's up-to-date selection takes in the most important, inventive and unusual Shakespeare films ever made. Half are British and American productions that retain Shakespeare's language, including key works such as Olivier's "Henry V" and "Hamlet," Welles' "Othello" and "Chimes at Midnight," Branagh's "Henry V" and "Hamlet," Luhrmann's "Romeo + Juliet" and Taymor's "Titus." Alongside these original-text films are more than 30 genre adaptations: titles that aim for a wider audience by using modernized dialogue and settings and customizing Shakespeare's plots and characters, transforming "Macbeth" into a pistol-packing gangster ("Joe Macbeth" and "Maqbool") or reimagining "Othello" as a jazz musician ("All Night Long"). There are Shakesepeare-based Westerns ("Broken Lance," "King of Texas"), musicals ("West Side Story," "Kiss Me Kate"), high-school comedies ("10 Things I Hate About You," "She's the Man"), even a sci-fi adventure ("Forbidden Planet"). There are also films dominated by the performance of a Shakespearean play ("In the Bleak Midwinter," "Shakespeare in Love"). Rosenthal emphasises the global nature of Shakespearean cinema, with entries on more than 20 foreign-language titles, including Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood and Ran," Grigori Kozintsev's "Russian Hamlet" and "King Lear," and little-known features from as far afield as "Madagascar" and "Venezuela," some never released in Britain or the US. He considers the films' production and box-office history and examines the film-makers' key interpretive decisions in comparison to their Shakespearean sources, focusing on cinematography, landscape, music, performance, production design, textual alterations and omissions. As cinema plays an increasingly important role in the study of Shakespeare at schools and universities, this is a wide-ranging, entertaining and accessible guide for Shakespeare teachers, students and enthusiasts.
From the jacket flap
"In many ways, Shakespeare's plays seem more suitable to cinematic interpretation than to the theater." - Julie Taymor.
Details
- Title 100 Shakespeare Films (Bfi Screen Guides)
- Author Daniel Rosenthal
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 272
- Language ENG
- Publisher British Film Institute
- Date July 2, 2007
- ISBN 9781844571703
-
Themes
- Cultural Region: British
More Copies for Sale
Rosenthal, Daniel
by 100 Shakespeare Films
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781844571703 / 184457170x
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
San Francisco, California, United States
- Item Price
-
$8.00$5.00 shipping to USA
Show Details
100 Shakespeare Films (BFI Screen Guides)
by Daniel Rosenthal
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used; Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781844571703 / 184457170x
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
London, Greater London, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
$19.99$13.96 shipping to USA
Show Details
100 Shakespeare Films (Screen Guides)
by Daniel Rosenthal
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781844571703 / 184457170X
- Quantity Available
- 3
- Seller
-
GORING BY SEA, West Sussex, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
$20.19$10.88 shipping to USA
Show Details
100 Shakespeare Films
by Rosenthal, Daniel
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781844571703 / 184457170X
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
- Item Price
-
$16.97FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
100 Shakespeare Films
by Daniel Rosenthal
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781844571703 / 184457170X
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
- Item Price
-
$16.97FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
100 Shakespeare Films (BFI Screen Guides)
by Daniel Rosenthal
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used: Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781844571703 / 184457170X
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
HOUSTON, Texas, United States
- Item Price
-
$22.06FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
100 Shakespeare Films
by Daniel Rosenthal
- New
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781844571703 / 184457170x
- Quantity Available
- 10
- Seller
-
Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
$29.35$12.63 shipping to USA
Show Details
100 Shakespeare Films
by Rosenthal, Daniel/ Taymor, Julie (Foreward By)
- New
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781844571703 / 184457170X
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
$34.30$12.70 shipping to USA
Show Details
100 Shakespeare Films (Screen Guides)
by Rosenthal, Daniel
- New
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781844571703 / 184457170X
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
San Diego, California, United States
- Item Price
-
$74.66$5.45 shipping to USA