The Reel Shakespeare: Alternative Cinema and Theory

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Lisa S. Starks, Courtney Lehmann
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002 - Performing Arts - 298 pages
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', Taymor's 'Titus', Polanski's 'Macbeth', Welles 'Chimes at Midnight', and Van Sant's 'My Own Private Idaho'.

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Acknowledgments
7
Reinventing the Prince on Celluloid
25
Modernism and Patriarchy
43
Copyright

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