Providing up-to-date coverage of screen versions of Romeo and Juliet, this book encompasses a broad range of media from canonical movies to web series. The chapters, written by internationally recognized scholars, revisit well-known films and TV productions, while also exploring free retellings and introducing appropriations from around the globe.

Lively and up-to-date critical introductions to a rich range of Shakespeare adaptations for film, video and television.

This comprehensive guide covers approximately 400 feature-length films, documentaries, spin-offs, educational films, and excerpts of Shakespeare's plays. A full entry is provided for each major film, including cast, credits, and critical commentary. There are also sections on film and videos on Shakespeare's life and times, theater, poetry, plays, actors, and directors. Also included are an extensive bibliography, a list of archive and resource centers, and distributors. Separate indexes list directors and producers, major series, actors, and production personnel.

Examination Thesis from the year 2022 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,0, LMU Munich (English Studies), language: English, abstract: A concise overview of the theoretical context of Shakespeare in film, genre theory, drama and film analysis sets the stage for this paper on the use of Shakespeare adaptations in the modern classroom. Central to this work is the analysis of "Much Ado About Nothing" together with Branagh's 1993 film version of the play, and "Macbeth" and its latest adaptation by Joel Coen, as well as methodical and didactic considerations for the use of both, play and film, in the classroom. This tripartite structure is reflected in the main chapters: First, a short introduction to the play and its characters will lay the groundwork for a closer analysis in regard to the play's themes. Second, an in-depth look at the film adaptation will provide an insight into the various possibilities for re-imagining Shakespeare's plays in modern popular culture, how the themes are reflected in the film, and how the specifics of each play come together on the screen. Finally, each chapter will end on methodological and pedagogical implications of using these works for learning and teaching purposes. The didactic perspective will be further discussed in the last chapter “Teaching Shakespeare”, which offers an overview of important principles of teaching the bard and his work, discusses different approaches and includes an exemplary lesson plan for a teaching unit to demonstrate how the theoretical and didactic considerations can play together in the practical application.

From examinations of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now to Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, The Literature Film Reader: Issues of Adaptation covers a wide range of films adapted from other sources. The first section presents essays on the hows and whys of adaptation studies, and subsequent sections highlight films adapted from a variety of sources, including classic and popular literature, drama, biography, and memoir. The last section offers a new departure for adaptation studies, suggesting that films about history--often a separate category of film study--can be seen as adaptations of records of the past. The anthology concludes with speculations about the future of adaptation studies. Several essays provide detailed analyses of films, in some cases discussing more than one adaptation of a literary or dramatic source, such as The Manchurian Candidate, The Quiet American, and Romeo and Juliet. Other works examined include Moby Dick, The House of Mirth, Dracula, and Starship Troopers, demonstrating the breadth of material considered for this anthology. Although many of the essays appeared in Literature/Film Quarterly, more than half are original contributions. Chosen for their readability, these essays avoid theoretical jargon as much as possible. For this reason alone, this collection should be of interest to not only cinema scholars but to anyone interested in films and their source material. Ultimately, The Literature Film Reader: Issues of Adaptation provides an excellent overview of this critical aspect of film studies.

Everything about the how as well as the why of studying audiovisual Shakespeare is provided here, from silent cinema to the multiplex, and from cat's whiskers to Youtube.