Hamlethas 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 Hamletcontains the first scene-by-scene analysis of the methods used by Laurence Olivier, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh, and Michael Almereyda to translate Hamlet into highly distinctive and remarkably effective films.
Applying recent developments in neuroscience and psychology, Patrick J. Cook argues that film is a medium deploying an abundance of devices whose task it is to direct attention away from the film’s viewing processes and toward the object represented. Through careful analysis of each film’s devices, he explores the ways in which four brilliant directors rework the play into a radically different medium, engaging the viewer through powerful instinctive drives and creating audiovisual vehicles that support and complement Shakespeare’s words and story.
Cinematic Hamletwill prove to be indispensable for anyone wishing to understand how these films rework Shakespeare into the powerful medium of film.
Cinematic Hamletcontains the first scene-by-scene analysis of four outstanding film adaptations by Laurence Olivier, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh, and Michael Almereyda ofHamlet. Indispensable for anyone wishing to understand how these directors rework Shakespeare into the powerful medium of film.
“Patrick Cook’sCinematic Hamletcombines the anthropologist’sthick description with the latest in film theory from Bordwell, Carroll, McGinn, Sharff, Thompson and Thomson to produce challenging and provocative assessments of four major Hamlet films by Laurence Olivier, Franco Zeffirelli, KennethBranagh, and Michael Almereyda. Cook has new and interesting cinematicideas to share about all of these films, especially Almereyda’s Hlă,
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