Filming Shakespeare's Plays: The Adaptations of Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook and Akira KurosawaCambridge University Press, 29.06.1990 - 219 Seiten Shakespeare's plays provide wonderfully challenging material for the film maker. While acknowledging that dramatic experiences for theatre and cinema audiences are significantly different, this book reveals some of the special qualities of cinema's dramatic language in the film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays by four directors - Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa - each of whom has a distinctly different approach to a film representation. Davies begins his study with a comparison of theatrical and cinematic space showing that the dramatic resources of cinema are essentially spatial. The central chapters focus on Laurence Olivier's Henry V, Hamlet and Richard III; Orson Welles' Macbeth, Othello and Chimes at Midnight; Peter Brook's King Lear and Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood. Davies discusses the dramatic problems posed by the source plays for these films for the film maker and he examines how these films influenced later theatrical stagings. He concludes with an examination of the demands that distinguish the work of the Shakespearean stage actor from that of his counterpart in film. |
Inhalt
Cinematic and theatrical space | 5 |
Laurence Oliviers HENRY V | 26 |
Laurence Oliviers HAMLET | 40 |
Laurence Oliviers RICHARD III | 65 |
Orson Welless MACBETH | 83 |
Orson Welless OTHELLO | 100 |
Orson Welless CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT | 119 |
Peter Brooks KING LEAR and Akira Kurosawas THRONE OF BLOOD | 143 |
The film actor | 167 |
Conclusion | 184 |
Notes | 188 |
Select filmography | 199 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
achieve action adaptation aesthetic Akira Kurosawa André Bazin architectural artistic Asaji assertion battle Bazin Brook's KING LEAR camera movement castle character CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT cinema Claudius close-up complex composition context darkness décor deep focus Desdemona dialogue dimension director distance dramatic effect elements Elsinore established exterior Falstaff film actor film director film maker Film Quarterly film's final forest frame give Henry's horizontal interior isolation Jorgens KING LEAR Kozintsev Kurosawa Laertes lago Laurence Olivier light Literature Film Quarterly manipulation Manvell medium montage narrative nature Olivier's HAMLET Olivier's HENRY Ophelia Orson OTHELLO performance Peter Brook photographic presentation procession realism relation relationship RICHARD III scene screen sequence shadow Shakespeare Shakespeare's play Shakespearean film Shallow's shot Skoller space spatial articulation spatial detail spatial strategy stage structure suggest sustained Tavern theatre theatrical thematic THRONE OF BLOOD vertical viewer visual Washizu Welles's film Welles's MACBETH Welles's OTHELLO