The Reel Shakespeare: Alternative Cinema and Theory

This collection models an approach to Shakespeare and cinema that is concerned with the 'other' side of Shakespeare's Hollywood celebrity, taking the reader on a practical and theoretical tour through important, non-mainstream films and the oppositional messages they convey. The collection includes essays on early silent adaptations of Hamlet, Greenway's Prospero's Books, Godard's King Lear, Hall's A Midsummer Night's Dream,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611472326
• ISBN13: 9781611472325
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Length: 298 Pages