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Author Curry, J. K

Title Theatre Symposium, V 19 : Theatre and Film
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (153 pages)
Series Theatre Symposium Ser
Theatre Symposium Ser
Contents Introduction; Melodramatic Borrowings: Life, Stage, Screen; Robert Edmond Jones: Theatre and Motion Pictures, Bridging Reality and Dreams; Frank Castorf at the Volksbühne am Rosa Luxembourg Platz: Alienation Techniques and the Use of Mediated Material on the Live Stage; The London Theatre Goes Digital: Divergent Responses to the New Media; Nollywood: Film and Home Video, or the Death of Nigerian Theatre; The Performative Nature of Filmed Reproductions of Live Performance; Play- within- a- Play or Theatre- in- Film? : Ingmar Bergman's 'Through a Glass Darkly'
Montage and Theatricality as Sources of Estrangement: A Tendency in Contemporary Brechtian CinemaTheatre and Film in Evolutionary Perspective; Contributors
Summary Despite a shared history and many common present practices, the relationship between theatre and film often remains uncertain. Does a close study of film enrich an understanding of drama on the stage? What ongoing connections do theatre and film maintain, and what elements do they borrow from each other? Does the relative popularity and accessibility of film lead to an increased scholarly defensiveness about qualities exclusive to theatrical performances? Do theatre and film demand two different kinds of attention from spectators, or do audiences tend to experience both in the sam
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Subject Motion pictures and theater.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
Motion pictures and theater
Form Electronic book
Author Becker, Becky
Earnest, Steve
Hostetter, Anthony
Hostetter, Elisabeth
Jovanovic, Nenad
McConachie, Bruce
Smith, Lawrence D
Steele, Erin Bone
Stith, Nathan
Wade, Leslie A
ISBN 9780817385910
0817385916
9780817370060
0817370064