Mar 29, 2024  
2018-2019 Graduate Catalog 
    
2018-2019 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ENG 643 - Shakespeare and Film


This course will examine Shakespeare’s plays in relation to how they have been interpreted in the cinema. Emphasis will be placed on ways of using film to teach Shakespeare at the middle and high school levels. The course will focus on the varieties of interpretation supported by the text and on the various cinematic tools used by film makers to convey those interpretations. Students will have an opportunity to develop and enrich their understanding of Shakespeare through journal writing, formal written analysis, group discussion and presentations, short film projects, and film comparison. Plays by Shakespeare to be studied may include: Richard III, Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and King Lear. Films to be investigated may include: the British Film Institute’s Silent Shakespeare, Pacino’s: Looking for Richard, Loncraine & McKellen’s Richard III, Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood, Polanski’s and Welles’ Macbeth, Zeffirelli’s Hamlet, BBC’s Hamlet, and Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet.

Credits: 3



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