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Shakespeare's King Lear : the relationship between text and film /
This close study of film adaptations of King Lear looks at several different versions (mainstream, art-house and cinematic `offshoots'') and discusses: the literary text in its historical context, key themes and dominant readings of the text, how the text is adapted for screen and how adap...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Methuen Drama,
2009.
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| Colección: | Screen adaptations.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part One: Literary contexts
- 'The wheel is come full circle': origins and new directions
- Recycled narratives
- 'This great stage of fools': King Lear in performance
- Dominant readings of King Lear: a tale of redemption or fall?
- The adaptation debate
- Part Two: Production contexts
- From play text to silver screen
- Screen Lears: an overview
- The changing face of King Lear
- New ways of reading screen Lears
- Part Three: Readings of key versions
- From the canon to Hollywood
- East meets West: King Lear and the canon. Peter Brook's King Lear (1971): ' a Hollywood showman's nightmare'
- On the road: reclaiming Kozinstev's Korol Lir (1970)
- Chaos on the Western frontier: Akira Kurosawa's Ran (1985)
- King Lear and genre cinema
- King Lear as western elegy: Ed Dmytryk's Broken Lance (1954)
- King Lear and the urban gangster movie: the 'tragic' gangster
- Displacing the patriarchal family: Joseph Mankiewicz's House of Strangers (1949)
- Mafia father figures: Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather trilogy (1972, 1974, 1990)
- Gangster Lear as morality tale: Don Boyd's My Kingdom (2001)
- King Lear as melodrama: Jocelyn Moorhouse's A Thousand Acres (1997)
- King Lear goes art house: acts of reconstruction
- 'Meantime we shall express our darker purpose': Jean-Luc Godard's King Lear (1987)
- 'Radical art phalanx' versus 'a clever flag of PR convenience': Kristian Levring's The King is Alive (2000)
- Part 4: The afterlife ...
- The afterlife of King Lear: recent developments in the visual medium
- Adaptation: the debate goes on.