Introduction -- Laurence Olivier's Hamlet: the triumph of the cinesthetic -- Franco zeffirelli's Hamlet: modernizing medievalism -- Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet: the challenges of the full-text screenplay -- Michael Almereyda's Hamlet: uncanny imagination.
"Hamlet has inspired four outstanding film adaptations that continue to delight a wide and varied audience and to offer provocative new interpretations of Shakespeare's most popular play. Cinematic Hamlet contains the first scene-by-scene analysis of the methods used by Laurence…
Hamlet has inspired four outstanding film adaptations that continue to delight a wide and varied audience and to offer provocative new interpretations of Shakespeare's most popular play. Cinematic Hamlet contains the first scene-by-scene analysis of the methods used by Laurence …