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<p>Patrick Cook's Cinematic Hamlet combines the anthropologist's 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, Kenneth Branagh, and Michael Almereyda. Cook has new and interesting cinematic 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. Cook provides a fresh new voice in the ever expanding field of Shakespeare on Film. Samuel Crowl -- author of Shakespeare at the Cineplex: The Kenneth Branagh Era

Patrick J. Cook's Cinematic Hamlet: The Films of Olivier, Zeffirelli, Branagh, and Almereyda will be invaluable both to those who want to teach Shakespeare on film and to those who simply want to understand these films, or film in general, better. His close readings are a model of how to pay attention, drawing on cognitive theories about how we respond and remember, and covering everything from the effect of 70 mm. film on Kenneth Branagh's version to Michael Almereyda's ambiguities. <br>-- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900

<p>Patrick Cook's Cinematic Hamlet combines the anthropologist's 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, Kenneth Branagh, and Michael Almereyda. Cook has new and interesting cinematic 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. Cook provides a fresh new voice in the ever expanding field of Shakespeare on Film. Samuel Crowl -- author of Shakespeare at the Cineplex: The Kenneth Branagh Era

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Patrick J. Cook is an associate professor of English at George Washington University. He is the author of Milton, Spenser, and the Epic Tradition.

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