Exhibition: Shakespeare at the OU

The final clip (Clip 13) from this exploration of Orson Welles’s Macbeth further develops these points, and also examines a further striking technical feature of the film, Welles’s use of the surreal blending of cinematic takes, known as ‘dissolves.’ The closing of this part of the discussion returns to the earlier reference to the film’s allusions to fascism, and in this way makes a neat transition to Polanski’s later film of the same text.

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