100 Shakespeare Films
, by Rosenthal, DanielNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781844571697 | 1844571696
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 3/20/2007
Shakespeare's plays have inspired British Oscar-winners and spaghetti Westerns, Bollywood thrillers, and Soviet epics. Covering twenty plays, Daniel Rosenthal's selection of 100 Shakespeare films spans a century of cinema, from a silentTempest(1907) to Kenneth Branagh'sAs You Like It(2006). Fifty of the films retain Shakespeare's language, among them Laurence Olivier'sHenry Vand Orson Welles'sOthello.Alongside these are forty genre adaptations using modernized dialogue and re-imagined characters: Macbeth as a gangster inJoe MacbethandMaqbool;Othello as a jazz pianist inAll Night Long.Rosenthal also assesses twenty-five foreign-language titles. Presented alphabetically by Shakespeare play, each chapter begins with a synopsis, and the film essays explore cinematography, design, dialogue, music, and performance.