Cinematic Hamlet: The Films of Olivier, Zeffirelli, Branagh, and Almereyda, by Patrick J. Cook

Authors

Lisa Starks-Estes University of South Florida St. Petersburg

Abstract

Patrick J. Cook. Cinematic Hamlet: The Films of Olivier, Zeffirelli, Branagh, and Almereyda. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2011. 257 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-8214-1944 (cloth). ISBN 10: 0-8214-1944-7 (alk. paper). ISBN 13-978-0-8214-4365-1 (electronic).

Author Biography

Lisa Starks-Estes, University of South Florida St. Petersburg

Lisa S. Starks-Estes is Associate Professor of English at University of South Florida St. Petersburg, where she is Director of the MLA in Liberal Studies. She has presented papers, published articles, and edited volumes on various topics related to sexuality and violence in Shakespeare, Shakespeare on film, and other topics. She has published in journals such as Shakespeare Quarterly, The Shakespearean International Yearbook, Early Modern Literary Studies, Literature and Psychology, and Theatre Journal; and in book collections such as "Antony and Cleopatra": New Critical Essays (Routledge, 2005), Performing Transversally (Palgrave, 2003), Shakespeare and Appropriation (Routledge, 1999), and Marlowe, History, and Sexuality (AMS, 1998). She has guest-edited two special issues of the film journal Post Script on Shakespeare and film, and she has co-edited (with Courtney Lehmann) two books, entitled Spectacular Shakespeare: Critical Theory and Cinema (FDU/AUP, 2002) and The Reel Shakespeare: Alternative Cinema and Theory (FDU/AUP, 2002). Starks-Estes is currently working on a book tentatively titled Transforming Trauma: Violence, Vulnerability, and Virtus in Shakespeare's Roman Poems and Plays, and she has recently begun research on Shakespeare in Yiddish cinema.