Metanarrative functions of film genre in Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare films : strange bedfellows / by Jessica M. Maerz.

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Maerz, Jessica M [author.]

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TextPublisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017Description: 1 online resource (vi, 144 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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9781443893381
1443893382

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Metanarrative functions of film genre in Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare films.DDC classification:

791.43/75 23

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PR3093 .M28 2017eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-142) and index.

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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