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- catalog abstract ""This book is a historical study of five major productions and several offshoots of Shakespeare's plays. Willson's thesis is that studios like MGM and Warner Bros. made these films in order to polish their images as creators of artistic rather than populist products. The films also reflect the practices - the use of contract players, overproduction, adaptations based on popular genres - that have come to characterize Hollywood as an industry." "In discussing these productions, Willson pays special attention to cuts in the texts, casting decisions, and the actors' screen identities, directors' reputations and their previous films, and studio marketing strategies. Readers of Shakespeare in Hollywood will gain a better understanding of how studios attempted to make Shakespeare accessible to and respected by audiences with little or no knowledge of the plays. This goal foreshadowed efforts by such directors as Olivier and Branagh to bring the Bard to movie audiences."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11629432.
- catalog coverage "Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""In discussing these productions, Willson pays special attention to cuts in the texts, casting decisions, and the actors' screen identities, directors' reputations and their previous films, and studio marketing strategies. Readers of Shakespeare in Hollywood will gain a better understanding of how studios attempted to make Shakespeare accessible to and respected by audiences with little or no knowledge of the plays. This goal foreshadowed efforts by such directors as Olivier and Branagh to bring the Bard to movie audiences."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""This book is a historical study of five major productions and several offshoots of Shakespeare's plays. Willson's thesis is that studios like MGM and Warner Bros. made these films in order to polish their images as creators of artistic rather than populist products. The films also reflect the practices - the use of contract players, overproduction, adaptations based on popular genres - that have come to characterize Hollywood as an industry."".
- catalog description "1. Taming of the shrew (1929) and star power -- 2. "Doing Shakespeare right": Warner Brothers' A midsummer night's dream (1935) -- 3. Love's monument: the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Romeo and Juliet (1936) -- 4. Selected offshoots: Shakespeare at war, on Broadway, in the mob, in space, and on the range -- To be or not to be (1942) -- Double life (1947) -- Joe MacBeth (1955) -- Forbidden planet (1956) and The tempest -- My darling Clementine (1946) -- Broken lance (1954) -- Jubal (1956) -- 5. Shakespeare on poverty row: Welles's Republic Pictures Macbeth (1948) -- 6. Shakespeare's anti-Fascist Roman epic: the Houseman-Mankiewicz Julius Caesar (1953).".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-181) and index.".
- catalog extent "190 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Shakespeare in Hollywood, 1929-1956.".
- catalog identifier "0838638325 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Shakespeare in Hollywood, 1929-1956.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses,".
- catalog relation "Shakespeare in Hollywood, 1929-1956.".
- catalog spatial "Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "791.43/6 21".
- catalog subject "English drama Film adaptations.".
- catalog subject "English drama Film and video adaptations.".
- catalog subject "Film adaptations History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Motion pictures United States History.".
- catalog subject "PR3093 .W57 2000".
- catalog subject "Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Appreciation California Los Angeles.".
- catalog subject "Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Film adaptations.".
- catalog subject "Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Film and video adaptations.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Taming of the shrew (1929) and star power -- 2. "Doing Shakespeare right": Warner Brothers' A midsummer night's dream (1935) -- 3. Love's monument: the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Romeo and Juliet (1936) -- 4. Selected offshoots: Shakespeare at war, on Broadway, in the mob, in space, and on the range -- To be or not to be (1942) -- Double life (1947) -- Joe MacBeth (1955) -- Forbidden planet (1956) and The tempest -- My darling Clementine (1946) -- Broken lance (1954) -- Jubal (1956) -- 5. Shakespeare on poverty row: Welles's Republic Pictures Macbeth (1948) -- 6. Shakespeare's anti-Fascist Roman epic: the Houseman-Mankiewicz Julius Caesar (1953).".
- catalog title "Shakespeare in Hollywood, 1929-1956 / Robert F. Willson, Jr.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "Film adaptations. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".