Shakespeare and Film

A lively, concise introduction to film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays from the silent era to the present, Shakespeare and Film pays particular attention to the most influential directors' cinematic portrayals of the plays, offering insightful close readings of the elements of film-camera work, editing, music, acting, montage, among others-that students can use as models for their own writing and analysis. The book also includes a glossary of film and critical terminology as well as annotated selected bibliographies and filmographies.

Close readings

Through close readings of film scenes, Crowl explains film concepts or directorial styles in lively prose that keeps his undergraduate audience in mind. These analyses also function as models for students who are learning how to use close readings in their own essays.

Key elements of film clearly explained

Any analysis of film requires an understanding of film elements such as camera work, editing, and music. Shakespeare and Film introduces students to these elements and shows how they work together in a filmmaker's interpretation of Shakespeare.

A flexible, brief text

With modular chapters that span the history of Shakespeare on screen, Shakespeare and Film works well as a core text. At only 200 pages, it is also an ideal supplement to the Shakespeare plays, a reader of film criticism, or a film textbook.

Features extended discussions of scenes from over 40 film and television productions of the plays

Special emphasis is given to the films of Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Roman Polanski, Kenneth Branagh, Baz Luhrmann, Michael Almereyda, Julie Taymor, Grigori Kozintsev, and Franco Zeffirelli, and to the television productions of Joseph Papp, Jonathan Miller, Trevor Nunn, and Richard Eyre.

Written by a distinguished film scholar and award-winning teacher

Samuel Crowl, Trustee Professor of English at Ohio University, has long been a major figure in Shakespeare studies. The author of three previous books on Shakespeare and film, Crowl brings his award-winning teaching to undergraduate readers in Shakespeare and Film: A Norton Guide.

Includes a glossary of film and critical terminology and selected bibliographies and filmographies

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