Kinga Földváry

Cowboy Hamlets and zombie Romeos

Shakespeare in genre film

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Produktbeschreibung

The book focuses on the interpretation of Shakespeare film adaptations in commercial film genres, from the classical Hollywood era to contemporary blockbuster cinema. Its genre-based analyses revisit old favourites and rediscover long-forgotten treasures of film history, taking adaptation studies in a new direction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9781526142092
• ISBN-10: 1526142090
• Artikelnr.: 58590759

Autorenporträt

Kinga Földváry is Senior Lecturer at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest, Hungary

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Shakespeare meets genre film Part I: Classical Hollywood
cinema 1 Will in the Wild West: western adaptations of Shakespeare 2
Shakespeare the tear-jerker: from woman's film to global melodrama 3
Dark-minded Othellos, mobster Macbeths: film noir, gangster, gangster noir
Part II: Contemporary blockbusters 4 Back to school, Will: Shakespeare the
teen idol 5 Shakespeare the undead: a renaissance of vampires and zombies 6
Will, Bill and the Earl: versions of the author in contemporary biopics
Conclusion Index