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London. 2007. British Film Institute. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781844571703. 272 pages. paperback. keywords: Cinema Film Shakespeare Performing Arts. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Shakespeare's plays have inspired British Oscar-winners and spaghetti Westerns, Bollywood thrillers, and Soviet epics. Covering twenty plays, Daniel Rosenthal's selection of 100 Shakespeare films spans a century of cinema, from a silent Tempest (1907) to Kenneth Branagh's As You Like It (2006). Fifty of the films retain Shakespeare's language, among them Laurence Olivier's Henry V and Orson Welles's Othello. Alongside these are forty genre adaptations using modernized dialogue and re-imagined characters: Macbeth as a gangster in Joe Macbeth and Maqbool; Othello as a jazz pianist in All Night Long. Rosenthal also assesses twenty-five foreign-language titles. Presented alphabetically by Shakespeare play, each chapter begins with a synopsis, and the film essays explore cinematography, design,…
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"In many ways, Shakespeare's plays seem more suitable to cinematic interpretation than to the theater." - Julie Taymor.
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- Title 100 Shakespeare Films
- Author Daniel Rosenthal
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher British Film Institute
- Date July 2, 2007
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781844571703 / 184457170X
- Weight 0.99 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 6.64 x 4.92 x 0.8 in (16.87 x 12.50 x 2.03 cm)
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- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Shakespeare, William, Film adaptations - History and criticism
- Dewey Decimal Code 791.436
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