Cowboy Hamlets and Zombie Romeos

Cowboy Hamlets and Zombie Romeos

Author: Kinga Földváry

Publisher:

Published: 2021-02-16

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9781526142092

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The book focuses on the interpretation of Shakespeare film adaptations in commercial film genres, from the classical Hollywood era to contemporary blockbuster cinema. Its genre-based analyses revisit old favourites and rediscover long-forgotten treasures of film history, taking adaptation studies in a new direction.


Cowboy Hamlets and zombie Romeos

Cowboy Hamlets and zombie Romeos

Author: Kinga Földváry

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2020-12-15

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1526142112

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The book presents a systematic method of interpreting Shakespeare film adaptations based on their cinematic genres. Its approach is both scholarly and reader-friendly, and its subject is fundamentally interdisciplinary, combining the findings of Shakespeare scholarship with film and media studies, particularly genre theory. The book is organised into six large chapters, discussing films that form broad generic groups. Part I looks at three genres from the classical Hollywood era (western, melodrama and gangster-noir), while Part II deals with three contemporary blockbuster genres (teen film, undead horror and biopic). Beside a few better-known examples of mainstream cinema, the volume also highlights the Shakespearean elements in several nearly forgotten films, bringing them back to critical attention.


Vivien Leigh

Vivien Leigh

Author: Kate Dorney

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 9781526125088

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This edited volume provides new readings of the life and career of iconic actress Vivien Leigh (1913-67), written by experts from theatre and film studies and curators from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The collection uses newly accessible family archives to explore the intenselycomplex relationship between Vivien Leigh's approach to the craft of acting for stage and screen, and how she shaped, developed and projected her public persona as one of the most talked about and photographed actresses of her era.With key contributors from the UK, France and the US, chapters range from analyses of her work on stage and screen to her collaborations with designers and photographers, an analysis of her fan base, her interior designs and the "public ownership" of Leigh's celebrity status during her lifetime andbeyond.


Buyology

Buyology

Author: Martin Lindstrom

Publisher: Currency

Published: 2010-02-02

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0385523890

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A fascinating look at how consumers perceive logos, ads, commercials, brands, and products.”—Time How much do we know about why we buy? What truly influences our decisions in today’s message-cluttered world? In Buyology, Martin Lindstrom presents the astonishing findings from his groundbreaking three-year, seven-million-dollar neuromarketing study—a cutting-edge experiment that peered inside the brains of 2,000 volunteers from all around the world as they encountered various ads, logos, commercials, brands, and products. His startling results shatter much of what we have long believed about what captures our interest—and drives us to buy. Among the questions he explores: • Does sex actually sell? • Does subliminal advertising still surround us? • Can “cool” brands trigger our mating instincts? • Can our other senses—smell, touch, and sound—be aroused when we see a product? Buyology is a fascinating and shocking journey into the mind of today's consumer that will captivate anyone who's been seduced—or turned off—by marketers' relentless attempts to win our loyalty, our money, and our minds.


To Be or Not To Be

To Be or Not To Be

Author: Ryan North

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2016-09-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0735212198

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From the bestelling author of Romeo and/or Juliet and How to Invent Everything, the greatest work in English literature, now in the greatest format of English literature: a chooseable-path adventure! When Shakespeare wrote Hamlet he gave the world just one possible storyline, drawn from a constellation of billions of alternate narratives. And now you can correct that horrible mistake! Play as Hamlet and avenge your father's death—with ruthless efficiency this time. Play as Ophelia and change the world with your scientific brilliance. Play as Hamlet's father and die on the first page, then investigate your own murder… as a ghost! Featuring over 100 different endings, each illustrated by today's greatest artists, incredible side quests, fun puzzles, and a book-within-a-book instead of a play-within-a-play, To Be or Not To Be offers up new surprises and secrets every time you read it. You decide this all sounds extremely excellent, and that you will definitely purchase this book right away. Because as the Bard said: “to be or not to be… that is the adventure.” ...You're almost certain that's how it goes. To Be or Not To Be originally launched as a record-breaking Kickstarter project. This new, reader-friendly edition features the same text and illustrations as the original version, redesigned to take up half as many pages and weigh a whole pound less.


Reenacting Shakespeare in the Shakespeare Aftermath

Reenacting Shakespeare in the Shakespeare Aftermath

Author: Thomas Cartelli

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2019-01-31

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 9781137404817

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In the Shakespeare aftermath—where all things Shakespearean are available for reassembly and reenactment—experimental transactions with Shakespeare become consequential events in their own right, informed by technologies of performance and display that defy conventional staging and filmic practices. Reenactment signifies here both an undoing and a redoing, above all a doing differently of what otherwise continues to be enacted as the same. Rooted in the modernist avant-garde, this revisionary approach to models of the past is advanced by theater artists and filmmakers whose number includes Romeo Castellucci, Annie Dorsen, Peter Greenaway, Thomas Ostermeier, Ivo van Hove, and New York’s Wooster Group, among others. Although the intermedial turn taken by such artists heralds a virtual future, this book demonstrates that embodiment—in more diverse forms than ever before—continues to exert expressive force in Shakespearean reproduction’s turning world.


Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet

Author: Victoria Bladen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-10-31

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 100920095X

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From canonical movies to web series, this volume illuminates myriad forms of Romeo and Juliet on screen around the world.


Shakespeare

Shakespeare

Author: Eddie Sammons

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 9780856831881

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The birth of cinema at the end of the 19th century and the development of the narrative film made the works of Shakespeare a natural source for film makers. A hundred years later his enduring popularity is borne out not least by the success of the film "Shakespeare in Love". This comprehensive guide includes not only films of Shakespeare's plays, but also filmed stage performances and films based on or inspired by his works. The author has graded them into three categories: "pure" Shakespeare - films that are more or less direct film versions of the original play, either in part or whole, in original dialogue or translation; derivative - films that use Shakespearian themes or plots but are in other respects changed, films that revolve around a given play, and those inspired by a Shakesperian work; and opera and ballet versions. Each play which has been filmed is listed under its original title with "dramatis personae" and a brief synopsis of the story. Divided into the three sections listed above, the films are listed chronologically, giving information on each film such as title, country, language and year of production, director, production company, lead players, black and white/colour, silent, stereo, wide screen, and awards. Films made for television transmission are generally not included.


The Last Great American Picture Show

The Last Great American Picture Show

Author: Alexander Horwath

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 9053566317

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This publication is a major evaluation of the 1970s American cinema, including cult film directors such as Bogdanovich Altman and Peckinpah.