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Video-based teaching pack containing film clips that encourage students to consider the written text and see how each director interprets the same scene. The supporting study guide contains tasks and...
Teaching pack focusing different adaptations of Shakespeare plays. Examines Shakespeare’s language, imagery in the written text and images through filmic language, the way the plays and films combine...
In this radio talk Hitchcock replies to Granville-Barker’s proposition that Shakespeare’ plays could not be represented adequately on the air or the screen from the point of view of the filmmaker. Val...
Latin American exploitation film loosely based on Macbeth and set in Venezuela at the turn of the 20th century. Maximiliano (Alvarado) is a good man who has fallen in with a bandit clan. But after three...
In this episode of the radio series the Shakespearean actor, director and scholar Harley Granville-Barker explains why (in his opinion) Shakespeare cannot be interpreted on the screen, and can be interpreted...
A series of television, radio and cinema advertisements for Benson and Hedges Hamlet cigars. The campaign was created in 1960 by the Collett Dickenson Pearce agency and launched in the UK in 1964 running...
Feature film. John Barrymore, in his final film, plays a Shakespearean actor caricaturing himself. His attempts to tutor an aspiring star arouse jealousy. The various references to Shakespeare include a...
Feature film version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Eliminating cinematic narrative and theatrical staging the film was harshly treated by the critics.
Feature film. A French-Spanish derivative of Othello set in the late 1970s in which Othello is cast as a mercenary soldier fighting in Africa. Courtney Lehmann in Shakespeares After Shakespeare (op cit)...
Documentary film about the making of Christoph Schlingensief’s Nazi-'Hamlet’ (2001), a theatre project for which Schlingensief engaged several neo-nazis as amateur actors. In the theatre production...
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