| CODE | ENG2071 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Shakespeare into Film | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 2 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | English | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit seeks to provide a comparative inquiry into the problems of interpreting specific Shakespearean plays on film and television. Two major issues will be considered in this study-unit: whether interpolated actions and locations can be rendered thematically expressive, and whether verbal imagery can be recreated filmically through aural/visual correlatives. The following topics will be analysed in detail: * Olivier, Kozintsev, Branagh, Zeffirelli: Visual Strategies in Hamlet Adaptation. * ‘To see and hear it feelingly’: Image and Music in Zeffirelli’s and Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet. * Three Bleak Macbeths: Kurosawa, Polanski, Welles. * Brook, Kozintsev, Kurosawa and King Lear: Kott or Shakespeare? * Henry V on Film: Branagh and Olivier. * Stormy Weather: Jarman, Greenaway and The Tempest. Reading List: Anderegg, Michael, Orson Welles, Shakespeare and Popular Culture (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999) Boose, Lynda E. & Richard Burt (eds.), Shakespeare, the Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV and Video (London: Routledge, 1997) Cartmell, Deborah, Interpreting Shakespeare on Screen (London: Macmillan, 2000) Collick, John, Shakespeare, Cinema and Society (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989) Davies, Anthony, Filming Shakespeare’s Plays: The Adaptations of Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988) Davies, Anthony & Stanley Wells (eds.). Shakespeare and the Moving Image:The Plays on Film and Television (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) Donaldson, Peter S, Shakespearean Films/Shakespearean Directors (London: Unwin Hyman, 1990) Eckert, Charles W. (ed.),. Focus on Shakespearean Films (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1972) Geduld, Harry M., Filmguide to Henry V (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973) Grant, Cathy. ed., Focus on Shakespearean Films (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1972) Jackson, Russell, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) Jorgens, Jack J., Shakespeare on Film (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976) Kliman, Bernice W., Macbeth: Shakespeare in Performance (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993) Kliman, Bernice W., Hamlet: Film, Television, and Audio Performance (Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1988) Leggatt, Alexander, King Lear: Shakespeare in Performance (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991) Levenson, Jill L., Romeo & Juliet: Shakespeare in Performance (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987) Literature/Film Quarterly. Special Issues - Shakespeare on Film: Vol. 1, No. 4 (1973), Vol. 4, No. 2 (1976), Vol. 5, No. 4 (1977), Vol. 11, No. 3 (1983), Vol. 14, No. 4 (1986), Vol. 20, No. 4 (1992), Vol. 22, No. 2 (1994), Vol. 25, No. 2 (1997), Vol. 29, No. 2 (2001). Manvell, Roger, Shakespeare and the Film (London: Dent, 1971) McDougal, Stuart Y., Made into Movies: From Literature to Film (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1985) Rothwell, Kenneth S. & A Henkin Melzer, Shakespeare on Screen: An International Filmography and Videography (New York: Neal-Schuman, 1990) Shaughnessy, Robert, ed., Shakespeare on Film (London: Macmillan, 1998) Skovmand, Michael, ed., Screen Shakespeare (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1994) |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Saviour Catania |
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