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American Drama in the Age of Film Zander Brietzke

American Drama in the Age of Film par Zander Brietzke

American Drama in the Age of Film Zander Brietzke


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Examines the strengths and weaknesses of the dramatic and cinematic arts to confront the standard arguments in the film-versus-theater debate. Using widely known adaptations of ten major plays, Brietzke seeks to highlight the inherent powers of each medium and draw conclusions not just about how they differ, but how they ought to differ as well.

American Drama in the Age of Film Résumé

American Drama in the Age of Film Zander Brietzke

Is theater really dead? Does the theater, as its champions insist, really provide a more intimate experience than film? If so, how have changes in cinematic techniques and technologies altered the relationship between stage and film? What are the inherent limitations of representing three-dimensional spaces in a two-dimensional one, and vice versa? American Drama in the Age of Film examines the strengths and weaknesses of both the dramatic and cinematic arts to confront the standard arguments in the film-versus-theater debate. Using widely known adaptations of ten major plays, Brietzke seeks to highlight the inherent powers of each medium and draw conclusions not just about how they differ, but how they ought to differ as well. He contrasts both stage and film productions of, among other works, David Mamets Glengarry Glen Ross, Sam Shepards True West, Edward Albees Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Margaret Edsons Wit, Tony Kushners Angels in America, Tennessee Williamss Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman, and August Wilsons The Piano Lesson. In reading the dual productions of these works, Brietzke finds that cinema has indeed stolen much of theaters former thunder, by making drama more intimate, and visceral than most live events. But theater is still vital and matters greatly, Brietzke argues, though for reasons that run counter to many of the virtues traditionally attributed to it as an art form, such as intimacy and spontaneity. Brietzke seeks to revitalize perceptions of theater by challenging those common pieties and offering a new critical paradigm, one that champions spectacle and simultaneity as the most, not least, important elements of drama.

American Drama in the Age of Film Avis

"In this elegant and long-overdue book, drama and film emerge not as competitors per se but as collaborators who variously borrow and profit from their intertwined histories. At the same time, Zander Brietzke delivers a passionate defense of the theater, a reminder that even and especially in an age of media, theater remains the most live and lively art." - Martin Puchner, author of Stage Fright: Modernism. Anti-Theatricality, and Drama"

À propos de Zander Brietzke

Zander Brietzke is Adjunct Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is editor of the Eugene O'Neill Review at Suffolk University, author of The Aesthetics of Failure: Dynamic Structure in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill, and coeditor of Jason Robards Remembered.

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GOR013660597
9780817315719
0817315713
American Drama in the Age of Film Zander Brietzke
Occasion - Très bon état
Relié
The University of Alabama Press
2007-06-30
296
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