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OverviewDuring World War Two, many British writers and thinkers turned to Shakespeare in order to articulate the values for which their nation was fighting. Yet the cinema presented moviegoers with a more multifaceted Shakespeare, one who signalled division as well as unity. Shakespeare and British World War Two Film models a synchronic approach to adaptation that, by situating the Shakespeare movie within histories of film and society, avoids the familiar impasse in which the playwright's works are the beginning, middle and end of critical study. Through close analysis of works by Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard, Humphrey Jennings, and the partners Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, among others, this study demonstrates how Shakespeare served as a powerful imaginative resource for filmmakers seeking to think through some of the most pressing issues and problems that beset wartime British society. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr (Pennsylvania State University)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.70cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9781108842648ISBN 10: 110884264 Pages: 250 Publication Date: 31 March 2022 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. 'Hamlet's a loser, Leslie!': Pimpernel Smith, Hamlet and film propaganda; 2. 'What we all have in common': Fires Were Started, Macbeth and the people's war; 3. The Black-White Gentleman: The Man in Grey, Othello and the melodrama of Anglo-West Indian relations; 4. 'Bottom's not a gangster!': A Matter of Life and Death, A Midsummer Night's Dream and post-war Anglo-American relations.Reviews'Garrett Sullivan's brilliant study of Shakespeare in British film during the Second World War defines a new and exhilarating approach to examining the wide range of ways in which a particular social and cultural history and geography of Shakespeare in films - from adaptations to citations to offshoots - can be investigated. This is superb and innovative scholarship that has sent me rushing back to films I knew well and rushing off to watch others I had never even heard of.' Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame Author InformationGarrett A. Sullivan, Jr., Liberal Arts Professor of English, teaches at Pennsylvania State University. He is author of The Drama of Landscape: Land, Property and Social Relations on the Early Modern Stage (1998), Memory and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster (Cambridge University Press, 2005), and Sleep, Romance and Human Embodiment: Vitality from Spenser to Milton (Cambridge University Press, 2012). With Mary Floyd-Wilson, he co-edited Environment and Embodiment in Early Modern England (2007) and The Geographies of Embodiment in Early Modern England (2020). He co-edits, with Julie Sanders, the book series Early Modern Literary Geographies. He is a past trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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