表題番号：2019N-033
日付：2020/05/31
研究課題サイレント映画期のシェイクスピアのアダプテーション
| 研究者所属（当時） | 資格 | 氏名 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| （代表者） | 国際学術院 国際教養学部 | 教授 | 森田 典正 |
| （連携研究者） | University of Birmingham | Professor | Dobson, Michael |
- 研究成果概要
- I have made an extensive archival research on Italian silent films based on and inspired by Shakespeare’s plays with this grant. During the fifteen years between the early 1910s and the mid-1920s some two dozen such films were made, though many of them are now considered to be lost, and some are available on video and others are now conserved in various film archives in Europe and USA. During the past one year I have obtained and viewed all available videos and went to British Film Institute in London and the Moving Image Research Center of Library of Congress in Washington DC for the screening of their collections. In this way I have managed not only to watch most of the existing materials, but also to read about lost films in trade papers and film reviews. Abundant of those are available at Folger Shakespeare Library, where I had a privileged to spend some time during my visit to Washington DC. One of the common characteristics in the Italian silent film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays is their visual realism, in which sets, costumes and props are faithfully reproduced in the way they fit to their historical setting.