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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,I., and Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho.

The Reel Shakespeare: ALTERNATIVE CINEMA AND

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    A Hardback by Lisa S. Starks, Courtney Lehmann

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      Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
      Publication Date: 01/10/2002
      ISBN13: 9781611472325, 978-1611472325
      ISBN10: 1611472326

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      Book Synopsis
      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,I., and Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho.

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