Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-215) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : from stage to screen -- Part one. Film language. Silent ghosts, speaking ghosts : movies about movies -- Méliès and the pioneers -- Part two. Shakespeare films. "Stay, illusion" -- Supernatural comedies : A midsummer night's dream and The tempest -- "The most unfortunate major film ever produced" : Shakespeare and the talkies -- Ghosts and courts : the openings of Hamlet -- Macbeth and the supernatural -- Conclusion. A new hybrid : Taymor's dream.
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