Contents -- Preface -- Phantom of the Cinema: Macbeth's Ghosts in the Flesh -- 1. Textual sources -- 2. OrsonWelles, -- 3. Akira Kurosawa, -- 4. Roman Polanski, -- 5. Trevor Nunn, -- 6. Alexander Abela, -- 7. Vishal Bhardwaj, -- 8. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- "Instruments of Darkness": Witches and the Supernatural in Four Versions of Macbeth1 -- Bibliography -- Witches and Ghosts in Modern Times Lost? How to Negotiate the Supernatural in Modern Adaptations of Macbeth -- 1. Introduction: A busy decade for Macbeth -- 2. Teenagemutant witches in a Mad-Max wasteland -- 3. Angry young sluts in Melbourne underworld -- 4. Sickening nuns in godless tyranny -- 5. Conclusion: Foul is definitely fair -- Bibliography -- Macbeth's Witches: Nurses,Waitresses, Feminists, Punk Gore Groupies -- Bibliography -- Weird Space in Macbeth on Screen -- Weird Space as Natural Space -- Natural or Supernatural -- Weird Space as Peripheral Space -- Weird Space as Inner Space -- Weird Space as pervasive -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- "Look how our partner's rapt": Externalizing Rapture in Orson Welles's Macbeth ( , ) -- Bibliography -- Symbolic and Thematic Impoverishment in Roman Polanski's Macbeth -- Bibliography -- "Horrible imaginings": Rupert Goold's FilmAdaptation, a Macbeth for the Twenty-First Century1 -- Bibliography -- Shakespeare in Mzansi -- 1. Entabeni: Macbeth as FilmNoir -- 2. Death of a Queen and South Africa's Cultural Pasts -- Bibliography -- Claude Barma's Macbeth ( ): Shakespeare and the Hybridity of the French "dramatique" -- 1. Macbeth on television: the book, the small screen and the big screen -- 1.1. Macbeth as "televised text" -- 1.2. Between theatre and cinema -- 2. Macbeth, an intimist tragedy or a political drama? -- 2.1. PerformingMacbeth "inside": intimacy and subjectivity -- 2.2. A political Macbeth? -- Credits -- Actors:.

With the voices of: -- Presentation: -- Bibliography -- ". . . [M]ethought/ The wood began to move" ( . . - ) or Whatever Happened to Witches and Woods in Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood ( ), Alexander Abela's Makibefo ( ) and Mark Brozel's Macbeth ( ): Film Style or the Poetics of Displacement -- The jo or introduction -- The hà or destruction: Witches, wizards. . . and ladies -- Witches -- Doing the deed: the seen and the unseen -- The ghost sequence: fromthe visible to the invisible -- The Kyù, or haste -- Guilt andmadness -- Whatever happened to Birnam -- Conclusion. From visual narration to the visionary: -- Time-image or showing beyond, the "cinema of a seer" -- Bibliography -- Fleance in the Final Scene of Macbeth: The Return of the Repressed -- Bibliography -- "A Barren Sceptre" ( . . ): Generation, Generations, and Destiny in Maqbool and Global Adaptations of Macbeth -- 1. The Prophetic Bind -- 2. The Power of Prophecy in Global Adaptations of Macbeth -- 3. "A Fruitless Crown" ( . . ): Fecundity and the Challenge to Destiny -- Bibliography -- Home Sweet Home: Visual Representation of Domestic Spaces in Macbeth -- Macbeth and Gothic fiction -- Gothic fiction and "the Gothic" -- Castles (Welles, Polanski, Kurosawa) -- Modern Spaces (Wright and Brozel) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Happily Never After? Women Filmmakers and the Tragedy of Macbeth -- Gender and Genre -- From Propaganda Film to Period Film -- Macbeth as Docu-drama -- Macbeth, The Comedy? -- Macbeth Meets the Avant-garde -- Macbeth as a Coming-of-Age Story -- From Toil to Trouble -- Bibliography -- "Get a Look at Your Wife's Beautiful Cones": Lady Macbeth's Stone Butch Blues and Rural Second-Wave Feminismin Scotland, PA -- Galenic Medicine, Female Masculinity, and Lady Macbeth's Transgenderism.

Scotland, PA, Second-Wave Feminism, and Normative Gender in s rural North America -- Bibliography -- "Struts and frets": Physical Eloquence in Vladimir Vasiliev's Macbeth -- Bibliography -- Appendix: production details -- Cast and crew -- Act one -- Act two -- Macbeth in André Barsacq's Le Rideau rouge ( ): Mise en Abyme and Acoustic Porousness -- Bibliography -- "Is this an umbrella which I see before me?": Columbo goes to Scotland Yard1 -- 1. Columbo: to be Macbeth -- 2. Columbo: not to be Macbeth -- Bibliography -- Art not without Ambition: Stardom, Selfhood and Laurence Olivier's unmade Macbeth -- The Shakespearean Star Text -- Contemporary Star Discourses: The Oliviers and the Macbeth Screenplays -- Autobiography and the Macbeth Screenplays -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Theatre Productions Cited -- Macbeth on Screen: An Annotated Filmo-Bibliography -- Abstracts -- Notes on the Contributors.