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Ken Loach’s "Ae Fond Kiss". A Multicultural Romeo and Juliet Story?

Author: Clare Stalder

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2013-05-08

Total Pages: 19

ISBN-13: 3656426783

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,7, Free University of Berlin, language: English, abstract: The life of the "Ae Fond Kiss" protagonists, Casim and Roisin, is made difficult when they start a romantic relationship that brings Casim’s Pakistani background into conflict with Roisin’s Irish Catholic background They are condemned to experience how long standing prejudice and narrow-mindedness get in the way of what looks like a promising, almost harmonious love story –just like it tragically happens to Romeo and Juliet.

Shakespeares After Shakespeare [2 Volumes]

Author: Richard Burt

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13:

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Although he wrote 400 years ago, Shakespeare's plays continue to be performed by directors and actors interpreting his material for contemporary audiences. This encyclopaedia chronicles the lasting influence of Shakespeare on popular culture. It includes sections on types of media to which Shakespeare has been adapted, with an overview essay. Although he wrote 400 years ago, Shakespeare's plays continue to be performed by directors and actors interpreting his material for contemporary audiences. He also continues to leave his mark on films, comic books, television shows, and popular culture, as modern creative artists adapt and refashion his works. With special emphasis on the last hundred years, this encyclopedia chronicles the lasting influence of Shakespeare on popular culture. It includes broad sections on types of media to which Shakespeare has been adapted, each beginning with an overview essay, followed by sections on individual plays. These present chronologically arranged entries on adaptations. In addition, the work offers stage histories, biographies of actors and directors, and other valuable information. Actors, directors and writers featured include Kenneth Branagh, Ralph Fiennes, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Vanessa Redgrave, Orson Welles, John Barrymore, Peter Brook, Bertolt Brecht, Henry Irving, and Joseph Papp. The encyclopedia also provides entries on the presence of Shakespeare in films, TV series, and books, including "The Avengers", "Alley Oop", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Classics Illustrated", "Dombey and Son", "Forbidden Planet", "Get Over It", "The Lion King", "A Plague of Angels", "Superman", "Tombstone", and "Ulysses". It closes with a selected, general bibliography and an extensive index.

Romeo and Juliet: Write an Obituary for Romeo!

Author: Florian Heitkamp

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2011-04-01

Total Pages: 6

ISBN-13: 3640881834

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Presentation / Essay (Pre-University) from the year 2010 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1+, Willy-Brandt-Gymnasium Oer-Erkenschwick, language: English, abstract: Write an obituary for Romeo “Two houses both alike in dignity – From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.” Yesterday, Romeo – heir to the great family of Montague – deceased next to his wife in the vault of the house of Capulet. We, the families of Capulet and Montague, mourn the death of our fellow brethren Romeo whom we wreaked havoc on due to both our houses’ ignorance and ill-advised hatred. Romeo was a mere sixteen years old, when he fell desperately in love with a girl named Rosaline who unfortunately did not return his affection and hence left his desire for love unfulfilled. Ever since his early childhood it was apparent that he was a fairly literate person consuming poetry and showing some genius in composing poetry himself. He was handsome and intelligent though also impulsive and idealistic. Never was he interested in violence, he never deliberately inflicted damage upon anybody. One may recall the day when Mercutio was bound for quarrel and Romeo did his very best to prevent further mischief between our two families. Yet, despite his honourable intentions, his attempt to cool the boiling situation resulted in the death of his fellow Mercutio to whom he had always been a close, loyal and affectionate friend. (...)

Beyond Bollywood

Author: Jigna Desai

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1135887209

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Beyond Bollywood is the first comprehensive look at the emergence, development, and significance of contemporary South Asian diasporic cinema. From a feminist and queer perspective, Jigna Desai explores the hybrid cinema of the "Brown Atlantic" through a close look at films in English from and about South Asian diasporas in the United States, Canada, and Britain, including such popular films as My Beautiful Laundrette, Fire, MonsoonWedding, and Bend it Like Beckham.

British Film Directors

Author: Robert Shail

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2007-10-18

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0748629688

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British national cinema has produced an exceptional track record of innovative, creative and internationally recognised filmmakers, amongst them Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Powell and David Lean. This tradition continues today with the work of directors as diverse as Neil Jordan, Stephen Frears, Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. This concise, authoritative volume analyses critically the work of 100 British directors, from the innovators of the silent period to contemporary auteurs. An introduction places the individual entries in context and examines the role and status of the director within British film production. Balancing academic rigour with accessibility, British Film Directors provides an indispensable reference source for film students at all levels, as well as for the general cinema enthusiast.Key features include:* A complete list of each director's British feature films.* Suggested further reading on each filmmaker.* A comprehensive career overview, including biographical information and an assessment of the director's current critical standing. * 10 B&W illustrations.

Realism, Naturalism, Loachism? A Study of Ken Loach's Films of the 1990s.

Author: Wenke Langhof

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2009-10

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 3640439376

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Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1.3, University of Potsdam (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: English Cultural an Media Studies, language: English, abstract: The 1990s was a very productive decade for the British film industry. It is the continuation of the so-called 'renaissance' in British film, which started in the 1980s. Films of those years were noted for "their realism, their simplicity, their absence of special effects and their originality" and often politically, socially and/or ethnically motivated. One of the British directors renowned for precisely this kind of filmmaking is Kenneth Loach, who adhered to his realistic approach to filmmaking from the 1960s through to the 1990s and applied it both to the television and the cinema screen. After a less productive decade during the 80s, when he turned to documentaries rather than feature films, most of which never made it to the screen under the politics and censorship of the Thatcher government, he experienced a comeback in the 1990s. Even if his style developed over the decades of his career, his main aim - to show the life of the British working class - has remained consistent. Critics generally refer to Loach as a realist or naturalist filmmaker, terms which Loach himself would rather substitute with "authentic", which to him seems a less loaded word than "naturalistic" or "realistic". So what is he? A realist, a naturalist or should one create a new term, as has been suggested and call his filmmaking "Loachian" to do justice to his unique style? Could one define such a thing as "Loachism", rather than "realism" and "naturalism"? Loach's style can be regarded as a continuum within realist traditions of filmmaking. From the early beginnings of cinema, realism constituted an important part of the new medium. Critics and filmmakers alike engaged in discussions on the realist issue. Is cinema real? Does it show 'l

Sex and Desire in British Films of The 2000s

Author: Nigel Mather

Publisher:

Published: 2024-10-29

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781526182364

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This book explores how British filmmakers of the 2000s engaged with the themes of love, sex and desire. It ranges from powerful contemporary dramas such as Kidulthood, Closer and Disobedience to the lighter mood of the Bridget Jones series, as well as exploring dramatisations of the lives of Oscar Wilde, Sylvia Plath and Iris Murdoch.

Literature Through Film

Author: Robert Stam

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2004-10-22

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 1405102888

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This lively and accessible textbook, written by an expert in film studies, provides a fascinating introduction to the process and art of literature-to-film adaptations. Provides a lively, rigorous, and clearly written account of key moments in the history of the novel from Don Quixote and Robinson Crusoe up to Lolita and One Hundred Years of Solitude Includes diversity of topics and titles, such as Fielding, Nabokov, and Cervantes in adaptations by Welles, Kubrick, and the French New Wave Emphasizes both the literary texts themselves and their varied transtextual film adaptations Examines numerous literary trends – from the self-conscious novel to magic realism – before exploring the cinematic impact of the movement Reinvigorates the field of adaptation studies by examining it through the grid of contemporary theory Brings novels and film adaptations into the age of multiculturalism, postcoloniality, and the Internet by reflecting on their contemporary relevance.

Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" in the movies: Comparing Franco Zeffirelli's (1968) and Baz Luhrman's (1996) film versions

Author: Bodo Heil

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2004-04-20

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 3638269809

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Examination Thesis from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3 (A), University of Trier (English Department Trier), language: English, abstract: The paper is organised in three main parts, theoretics, application and evaluation. The first part will deal with issues necessary to fully apprehend Shakespearean moviemaking. I will examine the history of it and explain what made the two films discussed herein possible and what eventually led to them. Furthermore, I will depict the two directors’ different backgrounds and how they lead on to their individual styles. I will consider some other films that have paved the way for Zeffirelli and Luhrmann. A chapter is dedicated to the filmic realisation, which will consider the cuts, rearrangements and general approach of the films and their directors. These issues will be confirmed by the secondary literature used herein. The second part will apply these issues to single and in my opinion particularly revealing film-scenes, which will be examined to perceive Zeffirelli’s and Luhrmann’s access to the characters, early and latter scientific reception and how Zeffirelli’s approach might differ due to the times his motion picture was made in and how both may or may not have succeeded in mirroring its times. The second part will thus rely on my interpretation and less on secondary literature. The third part will try to bring these perceptions to a conclusive evaluation. These are subjective and thus liable to objection. They cannot be universally valid, but since I am dealing with art, nothing is. Luhrmann was obviously firmly affected by Zeffirelli’s work, and moreover used it as a guiding line for his film, which gives rise to the question, if he was merely an epigone, or maybe rather struck by Zeffirelli’s scenic ideas as being plausible and practical. This is a question which I shall seek to respond to, if I cannot answer it, in the progress of this paper. Furthermore, I will try to point out Morris’s2 dictum, that Shakespeare movies are an art form and a genre in their own right and should not be confused with or compared to a theatrical production of Shakespeare, but have an aesthetic language of their own. [...] 2 Morris, Peter. Shakespeare On Film. Canadian Film Institute/Institut canadien du film. Ottawa: 1972

The Lost Grandmother

Author: Pierre Alizé

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2024-01-26

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 3753459232

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Solis lives with his wise grandmother in an intimate connection with all animals and plants. He learns everything about the world from her, for example, what is the evening of the year? And what does the night of the year do to people? One day, Solis unintentionally embarks on a long journey that leads him into the unknown. Will he return unharmed? And can a white dove help him? What is with the mysterious berries that Solis finds in the forest? Does his grandmother's disappearance have anything to do with it?