Author: Alan DensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tragedy
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Franco Zeffirelli's Production of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Author: Alan DensonThe Franco Zeffirelli Production of Romeo and Juliet
Author: Paramount Pictures CorporationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Romeo and Juliet
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" in the movies: Comparing Franco Zeffirelli's (1968) and Baz Luhrman's (1996) film versions
Author: Bodo HeilPublisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3638269809
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Examination Thesis from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3 (A), University of Trier (English Department Trier), language: English, abstract: The paper is organised in three main parts, theoretics, application and evaluation. The first part will deal with issues necessary to fully apprehend Shakespearean moviemaking. I will examine the history of it and explain what made the two films discussed herein possible and what eventually led to them. Furthermore, I will depict the two directors’ different backgrounds and how they lead on to their individual styles. I will consider some other films that have paved the way for Zeffirelli and Luhrmann. A chapter is dedicated to the filmic realisation, which will consider the cuts, rearrangements and general approach of the films and their directors. These issues will be confirmed by the secondary literature used herein. The second part will apply these issues to single and in my opinion particularly revealing film-scenes, which will be examined to perceive Zeffirelli’s and Luhrmann’s access to the characters, early and latter scientific reception and how Zeffirelli’s approach might differ due to the times his motion picture was made in and how both may or may not have succeeded in mirroring its times. The second part will thus rely on my interpretation and less on secondary literature. The third part will try to bring these perceptions to a conclusive evaluation. These are subjective and thus liable to objection. They cannot be universally valid, but since I am dealing with art, nothing is. Luhrmann was obviously firmly affected by Zeffirelli’s work, and moreover used it as a guiding line for his film, which gives rise to the question, if he was merely an epigone, or maybe rather struck by Zeffirelli’s scenic ideas as being plausible and practical. This is a question which I shall seek to respond to, if I cannot answer it, in the progress of this paper. Furthermore, I will try to point out Morris’s2 dictum, that Shakespeare movies are an art form and a genre in their own right and should not be confused with or compared to a theatrical production of Shakespeare, but have an aesthetic language of their own. [...] 2 Morris, Peter. Shakespeare On Film. Canadian Film Institute/Institut canadien du film. Ottawa: 1972
Franco Zeffirelli's Production of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Author: Alan DensonThe Girl on the Balcony
Author: Olivia HusseyPublisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 1496717082
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
"In 1968, Olivia Hussey became one of the most famous faces in the world, immortalized as the definitive Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet. Now the iconic girl on the balcony shares the ups and downs of her truly remarkable life and career ... In this candid memoir, Olivia Hussey tells her story: from being an "It Girl" in swinging 60s London and her enduring friendship with Romeo & Juliet co-star Leonard Whiting, through three tumultuous marriages, motherhood, stage-four breast cancer, debilitating agoraphobia, bankruptcy, and ultimately, a journey of self-discovery in India that led her on a path to fulfillment"--Back cover
Shakespeare in the Movies
Author: Douglas BrodePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019972802X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Shakespeare is now enjoying perhaps his most glorious--certainly his most popular--filmic incarnation. Indeed, the Bard has been splashed across the big screen to great effect in recent adaptations of Hamlet, Henry V, Othello, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard II, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and of course in the hugely successful Shakespeare in Love. Unlike previous studies of Shakespeare's cinematic history, Shakespeare in the Movies proceeds chronologically, in the order that plays were written, allowing the reader to trace the development of Shakespeare as an author--and an auteur--and to see how the changing cultural climate of the Elizabethans flowered into film centuries later. Prolific film writer Douglas Brode provides historical background, production details, contemporary critical reactions, and his own incisive analysis, covering everything from the acting of Marlon Brando, Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton, and Gwyneth Paltrow, to the direction of Orson Welles, Kenneth Branagh, and others. Brode also considers the many films which, though not strict adaptations, contain significant Shakespearean content, such as West Side Story and Kurosawa's Ran and Throne of Blood. Nor does Brode ignore the ignoble treatment the master has sometimes received. We learn, for instance, that the 1929 version of The Taming of the Shrew (which featured the eyebrow-raising writing credit: "By William Shakespeare, with additional dialogue by Sam Taylor"), opens not so trippingly on the tongue--PETRUCHIO: "Howdy Kate." KATE: "Katherine to you, mug." For anyone wishing to cast a backward glance over the poet's film career and to better understand his current big-screen popularity, Shakespeare in the Movies is a delightful and definitive guide.
Shakespeare Films in the Making
Author: Russell JacksonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521815479
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
A study of the production and reception of five Shakespeare films from the twentieth century.
Romeo and Juliet
Author: Jill L. LevensonPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719022180
Category : Shakespeare
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Romeo and Juliet (Directed by Franco Zeffirelli).
Author: Shakespeare Survey
Author: Allardyce NicollPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521523516
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.