Staging the Screen: The Use of Film and Video in Theatre

ISBN-13: 9781403916990 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 296 str.

Anna Green

Opis

The use of film and video is widespread in contemporary theatre. Staging the Screen explores a variety of productions, ranging from Piscator to Forced Entertainment, charting the impact of developing technologies on practices in dramaturgy and performance. Giesekam addresses critical issues raised by multi-media work and inter-media work

Spis treści

List of Illustrations.- General Editor's Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction: Contamination or Remediation?.- Magic to Realism: European Pioneers.- Polyscenicness: Josef Svoboda and Laterna Magika.- Big Screen to Small Screen.- Postmodern Collage: The Wooster Group.- Third-hand Photocopies: Forced Entertainment.- Live Films on Stage: The Builders Association.- Crossing the Celluloid Divide: Forkbeard Fantasy.- Quantum Theatre: Station House Opera.- Electric Campfires: Robert Lepage.- Conclusion.- Index.

O autorze

GREG GIESEKAM sits on the Board with Ankur Productions and was a Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK until 2006. His publications on contemporary British theatre and contemporary performance art include A Descriptive Catalogue of the Archive of the National Review of Live Art (a reference website cataloguing over 200 performances, talks and installations from 1986-1996) and Luvvies and Rude Mechanicals? Amateur and Community Theatre in Scotland (Scottish Arts Council, 2000).