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      Shakespearean Films/Shakespearean Directors
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      Shakespearean Films/Shakespearean Directors book

      ByPeter S. Donaldson
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 1990
      eBook Published 17 April 2013
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203381007
      Pages 256
      eBook ISBN 9780203381007
      Subjects Humanities, Language & Literature
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      Donaldson, P.S. (1990). Shakespearean Films/Shakespearean Directors (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203381007

      ABSTRACT

      Originally published in 1990, this book brought a new rigor and subtlety to the interpretation of film adaptations of Shakespeare. Drawing on traditional literary analysis, psychoanalysis, and current film theory about gender and subjectivity, the author combines close readings of seven films with historical and biographical studies of the directors who made them.

      Offering substantial readings of Jean-Luc Godard’s controversial deconstructed King Lear and of Liz White’s independent African-American Othello, Donaldson also applies his provocative and contemporary point of view to more familiar films. He reads Olivier’s Henry V in relation to its treatment of sexual difference; Olivier’s Hamlet in part as an expression of the director’s childhood sexual trauma; Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood as an allegory of the relationship between Western and Japanese cinema; and Zeffirelli’s immensely popular Romeo and Juliet in the light of its powerful homoerotic subtext.

      With striking perspectives on Shakespeare, on the movies as an expressive medium, and on the complex processes of cultural change, this is timeless useful reading for teachers and students of film and literature.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|30 pages

      "Claiming from the Female:" Gender and Representation in Laurence Olivier's Henry V

      chapter 2|38 pages

      Olivier, Hamlet, and Freud

      chapter 3|24 pages

      Surface and Depth: Throne of Blood as Cinematic Allegory

      chapter 4|34 pages

      Mirrors and M/Others: The Welles Othello

      chapter 5|18 pages

      "Haply for I Am Black": Liz White's Othello

      chapter 6|44 pages

      "Let Lips Do What Hands Do": Male Bonding, Eros, and Loss in Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet

      chapter 7|38 pages

      Disseminating Shakespeare: Paternity and Text in Jean-Luc Godard's King Lear

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