Screening the Tragedies
Jonathan Miller’s BBC TV production of King Lear and Michael Elliott’s version for Granada TV, starring Laurence Olivier, illustrate contrasting approaches to the small-screen medium, with Miller recording lengthy takes of characters artfully choreographed within bare sets, and Elliott employing a m...
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croxfordunivpr:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198724193.013.37 2023-05-15T18:40:22+02:00 Screening the Tragedies Jackson, MacDonald P. Neill, Michael Schalkwyk, David 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198724193.013.37 unknown Oxford University Press Oxford Handbooks Online book 2016 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198724193.013.37 2022-08-05T10:28:57Z Jonathan Miller’s BBC TV production of King Lear and Michael Elliott’s version for Granada TV, starring Laurence Olivier, illustrate contrasting approaches to the small-screen medium, with Miller recording lengthy takes of characters artfully choreographed within bare sets, and Elliott employing a montage technique to view individuals in expressive close-ups. The near-monochrome BBC costumes suggest the world of Jacobean politics, whereas Granada’s pastel colours suit the ‘Once upon a time’ quality of Shakespeare’s opening. The cinematic adaptations by Peter Brooke and Grigori Kozintsev better convey the play’s vastness, bleakness, and grandeur, Brooke filming in the snow-bound tundra of Northern Jutland, Kozintsev in a primitive rock-strewn Russian landscape, through which peasants trudge. Brooke’s style is New Wave, his vision unsparing. Kozintsev draws on both traditional epic convention and Christian-humanist tradition. Several other screen versions merit attention, notably Akiro Kurosawa’s Ran and Brian Blessed’s undervalued movie with himself as Lear. Book Tundra Oxford University Press (via Crossref) Elliott ENVELOPE(102.867,102.867,-65.867,-65.867) |
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Jonathan Miller’s BBC TV production of King Lear and Michael Elliott’s version for Granada TV, starring Laurence Olivier, illustrate contrasting approaches to the small-screen medium, with Miller recording lengthy takes of characters artfully choreographed within bare sets, and Elliott employing a montage technique to view individuals in expressive close-ups. The near-monochrome BBC costumes suggest the world of Jacobean politics, whereas Granada’s pastel colours suit the ‘Once upon a time’ quality of Shakespeare’s opening. The cinematic adaptations by Peter Brooke and Grigori Kozintsev better convey the play’s vastness, bleakness, and grandeur, Brooke filming in the snow-bound tundra of Northern Jutland, Kozintsev in a primitive rock-strewn Russian landscape, through which peasants trudge. Brooke’s style is New Wave, his vision unsparing. Kozintsev draws on both traditional epic convention and Christian-humanist tradition. Several other screen versions merit attention, notably Akiro Kurosawa’s Ran and Brian Blessed’s undervalued movie with himself as Lear. |
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