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Staging the screen : the use of film and video in theatre / Greg Giesekam

By: Giesekam, Greg [author]Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007Description: ix, 28 pages : illustrations; 22cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 42865ISBN: 9781403916990Subject(s): Theatre | Theatre/History & Criticism | Multimedia (Art)DDC classification: 792 GIE

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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

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of Figures (p. vi)
  • General Editors' Preface (p. viii)
  • Acknowledgements (p. ix)
  • Introduction: Contamination or Remediation? (p. 1)
  • 1 Magic to Realism: European Pioneers (p. 27)
  • 2 Polyscenicness: Josef Svoboda and Laterna Magika (p. 51)
  • 3 Big Screen to Small Screen (p. 72)
  • 4 Postmodern Collage: The Wooster Group (p. 80)
  • 5 Third-hand Photocopies: Forced Entertainment (p. 116)
  • 6 Live Films on Stage: The Builders Association (p. 142)
  • 7 Crossing the Celluloid Divide: Forkbeard Fantasy (p. 176)
  • 8 Quantum Theatre: Station House Opera (p. 201)
  • 9 Electric Campfires: Robert Lepage (p. 218)
  • Conclusion (p. 245)
  • Notes (p. 253)
  • A Selective Bibliography (p. 268)
  • Index (p. 277)

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