Cook argues that film is a medium deploying an abundance of devices whose task it is to direct attention away from the film’s viewing processes and toward the object represented. Cinematic Hamlet contains the first scene-by-scene analysis of the methods used by Laurence Olivier, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh, and Michael Almereyda to translate Hamlet into highly distinctive and remarkably effective films.Īpplying recent developments in neuroscience and psychology, Patrick J. Hamlet has inspired four outstanding film adaptations that continue to delight a wide and varied audience and to offer provocative new interpretations of Shakespeare’s most popular play. “The text is precise, detailed (in relation to textual, visual, and aural decisions), and eminently readable.” “Cook gives us a book which deftly leads the reader through the labyrinths of cinematic art and craft and also provides foundational lessons on how to see a film as a film.” His approach is generally thorough, fluent, and smart. “A ramble through the notes (of Cinematic Hamlet) leaves one with the impression that Cook has read everything of relevance and can be trusted when correcting the wayward critic. Samuel Crowl, author of Shakespeare at the Cineplex: The Kenneth Branagh Era Cook provides a fresh new voice in the ever expanding field of Shakespeare on Film.” Ideas to share about all of these films, especially Almereyda’s Hamlet, where his chapter is impishly longer than his already exhaustive treatment of Branagh’s four-hour film of the play. Thick description with the latest in film theory from Bordwell, Carroll, McGinn, Sharff, Thompson and Thomson to produce challenging and provocative assessments of four major Hamlet films by Laurence Olivier, Franco Zeffirelli, Kennethīranagh, and Michael Almereyda. “Patrick Cook’s Cinematic Hamlet combines the anthropologist’s
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