A History of Shakespeare on Screen : A Century of Film and Television (Paperback)

Preface; List of illustrations; 1. Shakespeare in silence: in search of the 'best class of people'; 2. Hollywood's four seasons of Shakespeare: Kate is heard as well as seen; 3. Laurence Olivier: marketing Shakespeare for the better classes; 4. Orson Welles, auteur: Shakespeare for the arthouses; 5. Shakespeare in the age of electronics: TV, electronovision, videocassette, laser disk, CD-ROM and WWW; 6. Shakespeare in sunny Italy: spectacle and song in Castellani and Zeffirelli; 7. The darker vision: the Shakespeare movie in the age of angst; 8. 'Other Shakespeares' in other realms: translation, adaptation, transformation and expropriation; 9. Shakespeare movies of different kinds: 'cinema of transgression', derivatives and beyond the fringe; 10. The renaissance of Shakespeare in moving images: across the mall and into the multiplex; Bibliography; Filmography and title index; Name index.