{"product_id":"shakespearean-films-shakespearean-directors","title":"Shakespearean Films\/Shakespearean Directors","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1990, this book brought a new rigor and subtlety to the interpretation of film adaptations of Shakespeare. Drawing on traditional literary analysis, psychoanalysis, and current film theory about gender and subjectivity, the author combines close readings of seven films with historical and biographical studies of the directors who made them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffering substantial readings of Jean-Luc Godard’s controversial deconstructed \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e and of Liz White’s independent African-American \u003cem\u003eOthello,\u003c\/em\u003e Donaldson also applies his provocative and contemporary point of view to more familiar films. He reads Olivier’s \u003ci\u003eHenry V\u003c\/i\u003e in relation to its treatment of sexual difference; Olivier’s \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e in part as an expression of the director’s childhood sexual trauma; Kurosawa’s \u003ci\u003eThrone of Blood\u003c\/i\u003e as an allegory of the relationship between Western and Japanese cinema; and Zeffirelli’s immensely popular \u003ci\u003eRomeo and Juliet\u003c\/i\u003e in the light of its powerful homoerotic subtext.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith striking perspectives on Shakespeare, on the movies as an expressive medium, and on the complex processes of cultural change, this is timeless useful reading for teachers and students of film and literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54234473365848,"sku":"9780415835008","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415835008.jpg?v=1768635918","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/shakespearean-films-shakespearean-directors","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}