{"product_id":"screen-adaptations-shakespeares-hamlet-the-relationship-between-text-and-film-paperback","title":"Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare's Hamlet: The Relationship between Text and Film - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSamuel Crowl\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eHamlet is the most often produced play in the western literary canon, and a fertile global source for film adaptation. Samuel Crowl, a noted scholar of Shakespeare on film, unpacks the process of adapting from text to screen through concentrating on two sharply contrasting film versions of Hamlet by Laurence Olivier (1948) and Kenneth Branagh (1996). The films' socio-political contexts are explored, and the importance of their screenplay, film score, setting, cinematography and editing examined. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffering an analysis of two of the most important figures in the history of film adaptations of Shakespeare, this study seeks to understand a variety of cinematic approaches to translating Shakespeare's \"words, words, words+? into film's particular grammar and rhetoric\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamuel Crowl \u003c\/b\u003eis Trustee Professor of English at Ohio University, USA. He is the author of several books on Shakespeare in performance including \u003ci\u003eShakespeare Observed\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare at the Cineplex\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Films of Kenneth Branagh\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and Film\u003c\/i\u003e. He has lectured at colleges and universities in the United States, England, Europe, and Africa and has been five times honored for distinguished teaching.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 27, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42119530086535,"sku":"9781408129555","price":64.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/07983bb7c5177e4ce3469dd10e30fa08.webp?v=1732541460","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/screen-adaptations-shakespeares-hamlet-the-relationship-between-text-and-film-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}