256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1990, this book brought a new rigor and subtlety to the interpretation of film adaptations of Shakespeare. Drawing on traditional literary analysis, psychoanalysis, and current film theory about gender and subjectivity, the author combines close readings of seven films with historical and biographical studies of the directors who made them.
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Preface 1. "Claiming from the Female:" Gender and Representation in Laurence Olivier’s Henry V 2. Olivier, Hamlet, and Freud 3. Surface and Depth: Throne of Blood as Cinematic Allegory 4. Mirrors and M/Others: The Welles Othello 5. "Haply for I Am Black": Liz White’s Othello 6. "Let Lips Do What Hands Do": Male Bonding, Eros, and Loss in Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet 7. Disseminating Shakespeare: Paternity and Text in Jean-Luc Godard’s King Lear. Filmography
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Donaldson, Peter S.
