Metanarrative functions of film genre in Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare films : strange bedfellows /
Maerz, Jessica M.,
Metanarrative functions of film genre in Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare films : strange bedfellows / by Jessica M. Maerz. - 1 online resource (vi, 144 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-142) and index.
Introduction : Generic Shakespeare -- Chapter one : Henry V's body generic : picturing the king -- Chapter two : Much ado about genre : Branagh's screwball Shakespeare -- Chapter three : Swing time : Love's labour's lost and Branagh's Broadway melodies -- Conclusion : Don't call it a comeback : Branagh's As you like it.
Kenneth Branagh is the most important contemporary figure in the production of filmed Shakespeare. His five feature-length Shakespeare films both created and represented the explosion of filmed Shakespeare adaptations that began in the 1990s. This book demonstrates Branagh's appeal to classical film genres in order to meta-narrate for a popular audience the unfamiliar terrain of the Shakespearean original; it examines the debts Branagh owes, stylistically and structurally, to classically-defined generic modes.
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9781443893381 Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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018364181 Uk
Branagh, Kenneth--Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Film adaptations.
Branagh, Kenneth.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Film, TV & radio.
Literature & literary studies.
PERFORMING ARTS--Reference.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Film adaptations.
PR3093 / .M28 2017eb
791.43/75
Metanarrative functions of film genre in Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare films : strange bedfellows / by Jessica M. Maerz. - 1 online resource (vi, 144 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-142) and index.
Introduction : Generic Shakespeare -- Chapter one : Henry V's body generic : picturing the king -- Chapter two : Much ado about genre : Branagh's screwball Shakespeare -- Chapter three : Swing time : Love's labour's lost and Branagh's Broadway melodies -- Conclusion : Don't call it a comeback : Branagh's As you like it.
Kenneth Branagh is the most important contemporary figure in the production of filmed Shakespeare. His five feature-length Shakespeare films both created and represented the explosion of filmed Shakespeare adaptations that began in the 1990s. This book demonstrates Branagh's appeal to classical film genres in order to meta-narrate for a popular audience the unfamiliar terrain of the Shakespearean original; it examines the debts Branagh owes, stylistically and structurally, to classically-defined generic modes.
9781443893381 (electronic bk.) 1443893382 (electronic bk.)
9781443893381 Cambridge Scholars Publishing
GBB795688 bnb
018364181 Uk
Branagh, Kenneth--Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Film adaptations.
Branagh, Kenneth.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Film, TV & radio.
Literature & literary studies.
PERFORMING ARTS--Reference.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Film adaptations.
PR3093 / .M28 2017eb
791.43/75