ABSTRACT
Shakespeare, The Movie brings together an impressive line-up of contributors to consider how Shakespeare has been adapted on film, TV, and video, and explores the impact of this popularization on the canonical status of Shakespeare.
Taking a fresh look at the Bard an his place in the movies, Shakespeare, The Movie includes a selection of what is presently available in filmic format to the Shakespeare student or scholar, ranging across BBC television productions, filmed theatre productions, and full screen adaptations by Kenneth Branagh and Franco Zeffirelli. Films discussed include:
* Amy Heckerling's Clueless
* Gus van Sant's My Own Private Idaho
* Branagh's Henry V
* Baz Luhrman's William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
* John McTiernan's Last Action Hero
* Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books
* Zeffirelli's Hamlet.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |5 pages
INTRODUCTION
part 1|12 pages
TOTALLY CLUELESS?
part 4|10 pages
“TOP OF THE WORLD, MA”
part 5|13 pages
POPULARIZING SHAKESPEARE
part 6|7 pages
SHAKESPEARE WALLAH AND COLONIAL SPECULARITY
part 7|15 pages
POETRY IN MOTION
part 8|12 pages
WHEN PETER MET ORSON
part 9|10 pages
IN SEARCH OF NOTHING
part 13|15 pages
AGE CANNOT WITHER HIM