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Genre/Form: | Film adaptations |
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Named Person: | William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Lisa Hopkins |
ISBN: | 9780713679106 0713679107 |
OCLC Number: | 181069092 |
Description: | viii, 200 pages ; 20 cm |
Contents: | Part 1. Literary contexts -- The play in its time -- The play today -- Adaptations of The Tempest -- a brief overview -- Part 2. From text to screen -- Introduction -- setting the scene -- Forbidden planet (dir. Fred Wilcox, 1956) -- The Tempest (dir. Derek Jarman, 1979) -- Prospero's books (dir. Peter Greenaway, 1991) -- Conclusion -- Part 3. Critical responses and the afterlife of text and film -- Introduction -- Jarman's The Tempest -- Prospero's Books -- Forbidden Planet -- Afterlife. |
Series Title: | Screen adaptations. |
Responsibility: | Lisa Hopkins. |
Abstract:
A close study of the relationship between text and film versions of The Tempest. Literature and film studies students will find plenty of material to support their courses and essay writing on how the film versions provide different readings of the original text.
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'Lisa Hopkins' Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare's The Tempest is accessible and insightful...this book offers some valuable provocations into the screen afterlife of the Bard's 'late Romance'. Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance (2009) Read more...

