Filming Shakespeare from Metatheatre to Metacinema is the first book-length study of
Shakespeare film adaptations concerned with metacinematic criticism. The volume offers a
thoroughly researched and extensive survey of reflexivity in Shakespeare on screen providing
the reader with comprehensive and easily readable case studies of major and obscure productions
from silent era to the present day. Topics include the ontology of the photographic image the
silent era cinema as death Hollywood counter-cinema ideology film genre and theatrical
vs. cinematic illusion. Considering Shakespeare criticism as well as film theory and history
the essays are aimed at students teachers scholars and enthusiasts of Shakespeare and film.
