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Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare's Hamlet: The Relationship between Text and Film

Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare's Hamlet: The Relationship between Text and Film

Paperback

Series: Screen Adaptations

Literary CriticismFilm Guides & ReferenceShakespeare

ISBN10: 1408129558
ISBN13: 9781408129555
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Mar 27 2014
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English

Hamlet is the most often produced play in the western literary canon, and a fertile global source for film adaptation. Samuel Crowl, a noted scholar of Shakespeare on film, unpacks the process of adapting from text to screen through concentrating on two sharply contrasting film versions of Hamlet by Laurence Olivier (1948) and Kenneth Branagh (1996). The films' socio-political contexts are explored, and the importance of their screenplay, film score, setting, cinematography and editing examined.

Offering an analysis of two of the most important figures in the history of film adaptations of Shakespeare, this study seeks to understand a variety of cinematic approaches to translating Shakespeare's words, words, words into film's particular grammar and rhetoric

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