Cinematic Shakespeare takes the reader inside the making of a number of significant adaptations to illustrate how cinema transforms and re-imagines the dramatic form and style central to Shakespeare's imagination.

Chapter 1 Series Forward Genre and Beyond: A Film Studies Series Chapter 2 Introduction: The Shakespeare Film and Genre Chapter 3 Finding the Playwright on Film Chapter 4 The Challenges of Romeo and Juliet Chapter 5 In and Out of Hollywood: Shakespeare in the Studio Era Chapter 6 Branagh and the Sons of Ken Chapter 7 Electronic Shakespeares: Televisual Histories Chapter 8 Post-Shakespeares

Michael Anderegg is professor of English and film studies at the University of North Dakota. He is the author of William Wyler (1979), David Lean (1982), and the editor of Inventing Vietnam (1991). His most recent book is Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture (1999).