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Article: Russell Jackson. Shakespeare Films in the Making: Vision, Production and Reception.(Book review)
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- Comparative Drama
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- June 22, 2008
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Russell Jackson. Shakespeare Films in the Making: Vision, Production and Reception. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xii + 280. $95.00.
Russell Jackson's bold and engaging Shakespeare Films in the Making takes the study of Shakespeare on film in a rewarding new direction. The great explosion of work focusing on Shakespeare on film in the past two decades has been characterized by close reading, performance and film theory, auteur analysis, feminist and psychoanalytic approaches, and cultural and genre studies. Jackson's work takes us to university libraries, Hollywood studio archives, the British Film Institute, and the Folger Shakespeare Library ...