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Adapting Performance Between Stage and Screen (Paperback, New edition)
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Adapting Performance Between Stage and Screen (Paperback, New edition)
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The book offers an introduction to adaptations between stage and
screen, examining stage and screen works as texts but also as
performances and cultural events. Case studies of distinct periods
in British film and theatre history are used to illustrate the
principle that adaptations can't be divorced from the historical
and cultural moment in which they are produced and to look at
issues around theatrical naturalism and cinematic realism. Written
in a refreshingly accessible style, it offers an original analysis
with emphasis on performance and event. It opens up new avenues of
exploration to include non-literary issues such as the treatment of
space and place, mise en scene, acting styles and star personas.
The recent growth of digital theatre is examined to foreground the
'events' of theatre and cinema, with phenomena such as NT Live
analysed for the different ways that 'liveness' is adapted.
Adapting Performance Between Stage and Screen explores how cultural
values can be articulated in the act of translating between
mediums. The book takes as its subject the interaction between film
and theatre and argues that, rather than emphasising differences
between the two mediums, the emphasis should be placed on elements
that they share, in particular the emphasis on performance and the
participation in an event. It uses a number of case studies to show
how this relationship is affected by changes in technology - the
coming of film sound, the invention of live-casting - and in the
nature of the event being offered to particular audiences. These
examples, ranging from the well-known to the obscure, are all
treated with relevant and knowledgeable analysis and a strong and
appropriate sense of context. The book offers a welcome overview of
previous work in this area and demonstrates the importance of
basing analysis on historical context, as well as giving new
insights into some familiar examples. Discussion ranges from Steven
Spielberg and Alfred Hitchcock to Robert Lepage and Ivo van Hove.
There are detailed analyses of Alfie, Gone Too Far and Festen as
well as authoritative analyses of NT Live performances and British
New Wave cinema. The book will be of primary interest to academics,
researchers, teachers and students working in adaptation studies,
film studies and theatre studies. Written in an accessible style it
will appeal to teachers and students on A-level, undergraduate and
postgraduate film, theatre, media and cultural studies courses. The
chapter on digital theatres will add to the growing body of
literature in this area and appeal to students and academics
working on digital cultures and new media. Live screenings of
theatre events are becoming more widely available and increasingly
popular, including some of the productions discussed. There is
potential interest for a general audience interested in British
films, theatre and actors.
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