Framing Shakespeare on film /

Framing Shakespeare on film /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Howlett, Kathy M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2000.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Film adaptations.
English drama > Film adaptations.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: rare visions
  • The frame's the thing: Franco Zeffirelli's Hamlet
  • The voyeuristic pleasures of perversion: Orson Welle's Othello
  • Framing ambiguity: Kenneth Branagh's Henry V
  • Breaking the frame: Akira Kurosawa's Ran
  • Vivid negativity: Richard Loncraine's Richard III
  • Utopian revisioning of Falstaff's tavern world: Orson Welle's Chimes at midnight and Gus Van Sant's My own private Idaho
  • Playing on the rim of the frame: Kenneth Branagh's A midwinter's tale.