ICIN289 — Film and Shakespeare
The course provides a general introduction to the theory and criticism of film including an intro to semiotic analysis, and to theoretical problems such as the issues of 'realism', 'spectatorship', and 'adaptation'. The course than examines a number of Shakespearean films in their historical and cultural contexts. Filmed versions of Hamlet, Othello, Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet King Lear, Henry V and The Tempest will be discussed, and students should be familiar with these plays before the course begins.