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Book Adapting Performance Between Stage and Screen

Download or read book Adapting Performance Between Stage and Screen written by Victoria Lowe and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Performativity   Life  Stage  Screen

Download or read book Performativity Life Stage Screen written by A. Dana Weber and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2019-06 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Performativity" refers to the emergent, ambiguous, and unexpected dimensions of any performance in the social, political, and artistic arena. The volume presents case studies of performativity in: linguistic translation; the city as stage of political performances; the theatricality of courtrooms and documentary film; contemporary theatre's political inheritance; and the historically punctured fabric of festival time. Its contributions to performance and theatre studies, sociology and folklore, and German studies, reflect this concept in a transdisciplinary and transatlantic dialogue.

Book Liveness on Stage

    Book Details:
  • Author : Claudia Georgi
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2014-08-27
  • ISBN : 3110395045
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book Liveness on Stage written by Claudia Georgi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre is traditionally considered a live medium but its ‘liveness’ can no longer simply be taken for granted in view of the increasing mediatisation of the stage. Drawing on theories of intermediality, Liveness on Stage explores how performances that incorporate film or video self-reflexively stage and challenge their own liveness by contrasting or approximating live and mediatised action. To illustrate this, the monograph investigates key aspects such as ‘ephemerality’, ‘co-presence’, ‘unpredictability’, ‘interaction’ and ‘realistic representation’ and highlights their significance for re-evaluating received notions of liveness. The analysis is based on productions by Gob Squad, Forkbeard Fantasy, Station House Opera, Proto-type Theater, Tim Etchells and Mary Oliver. In their playful approaches these practitioners predominantly present such media combination as a means of cross-fertilisation rather than as an antagonism between liveness and mediatisation. Combining an original theoretical approach with an in-depth analysis of the selected productions, this study will appeal to scholars and practitioners of theatre and performance as well as to those researching intermedial phenomena.

Book Stage Play and Screen Play

Download or read book Stage Play and Screen Play written by Michael Ingham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dialogue between film and theatre studies is frequently hampered by the lack of a shared vocabulary. Stage-Play and Screen-Play sets out to remedy this, mapping out an intermedial space in which both film and theatre might be examined. Each chapter’s evaluation of the processes and products of stage-to-screen and screen-to-stage transfer is grounded in relevant, applied contexts. Michael Ingham draws upon the growing field of adaptation studies to present case studies ranging from Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan and RSC Live’s simulcast of Richard II to F.W. Murnau’s silent Tartüff, Peter Bogdanovich’s film adaptation of Michael Frayn’s Noises Off, and Akiro Kurosawa’s Ran, highlighting the multiple interfaces between media. Offering a fresh insight into the ways in which film and theatre communicate dramatic performances, this volume is a must-read for students and scholars of stage and screen.

Book Al Pacino  A Life on Screen

Download or read book Al Pacino A Life on Screen written by ChatStick Team and published by ChatStick Team. This book was released on 2024-06-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 🌟🎬 Discover the Legend Behind the Screen with "Al Pacino: A Life on Screen" 🎭✨ Embark on an unforgettable journey through the life and career of Al Pacino, brought to life by the ChatStick Team. From the stages of Broadway to the epic landscapes of Hollywood, this book captures the essence of Pacino's cinematic legacy. 🌆📽 Uncover Hidden Stories: Dive deep into the roles that defined a generation, with exclusive insights into the making of cinematic masterpieces. 🎞🌟 Personal Evolution: Witness the personal growth of a man whose life off-screen is as compelling as his on-screen personas. 📖💫 Legacy Unveiled: Explore the impact of Pacino's work on the film industry and how he inspired future generations of actors and filmmakers. 🏆🎥 Perfect for movie buffs, acting enthusiasts, and fans of Al Pacino, this ebook is your ticket to understanding the man behind some of cinema's most unforgettable characters. 🌍📚 Grab your copy now and immerse yourself in the world of a film icon! 🛒📖

Book Documentation  Disappearance and the Representation of Live Performance

Download or read book Documentation Disappearance and the Representation of Live Performance written by M. Reason and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-09-22 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The documentation of practice is one of the principle concerns of performance studies. Focusing on contemporary performance practice and with emphasis on the transformative impact of video, photography and writing, this book explores the ideological, practical, and representational implications of knowing performance through its documentations.

Book Shakespeare on Screen  King Lear

Download or read book Shakespeare on Screen King Lear written by Victoria Bladen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date survey of Shakespeare's King Lear on screen and the aesthetic, social and political issues raised by screen versions.

Book Stage and Screen Lives

Download or read book Stage and Screen Lives written by Michael Billington and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished theatre critic and presenter Michael Billington has made a personal selection taken from the Dictionary of National Biography of approximately 130 mini-biographies spanning a wide spectrum of people who have played some part in shaping the culture of the worlds of stage andscreen in Britain.This title, following on from the success of Brief Lives, which was first published in hardback in 1997 and subsequently in paperback, will be published alongside two other similar titles, Political Lives and Literary Lives.As Michael Billington details in his very entertaining introduction, the choice of entries has been based partly on the subject of the entry and partly on the individual biographer and their own insight into the life of the subject.The biographies include actors, critics, entertainers, directors, and pioneers in film and theatre.From Somerset Maugham to Eric Morecambe, Richard Burton to Noel Coward, and Tony Hancock to Alfred Hitchcock.Examples of entries:Moira Shearer on Frederick AshtonMichael Denison on Noel CowardElizabeth Pollitt on Gracie FieldsRachael Low on Cary GrantArthur Marshall on Tony HancockAlan Bennett on Russell HartyPaul Johnson on Philip Hope-WallaceRalph Richardson on Alexander KordaMargot Fonteyn on Lydia LopokovaEric Ambler on James MasonJohn Gielgud on Margaret RutherfordBarry Took on Kenneth WilliamsThe selected entries, such as those above, together create a highly readable and fascinating anthology, which gives some insight into the broader picture of the world of theatre, film, and TV in Britain as we know it today.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations written by Dominic McHugh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-14 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood's conversion to sound in the 1920s created an early peak in the film musical, following the immense success of The Jazz Singer. The opportunity to synchronize moving pictures with a soundtrack suited the musical in particular, since the heightened experience of song and dance drew attention to the novelty of the technological development. Until the near-collapse of the genre in the 1960s, the film musical enjoyed around thirty years of development, as landmarks such as The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St Louis, Singin' in the Rain, and Gigi showed the exciting possibilities of putting musicals on the silver screen. The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations traces how the genre of the stage-to-screen musical has evolved, starting with screen adaptations of operettas such as The Desert Song and Rio Rita, and looks at how the Hollywood studios in the 1930s exploited the publication of sheet music as part of their income. Numerous chapters examine specific screen adaptations in depth, including not only favorites such as Annie and Kiss Me, Kate but also some of the lesser-known titles like Li'l Abner and Roberta and problematic adaptations such as Carousel and Paint Your Wagon. Together, the chapters incite lively debates about the process of adapting Broadway for the big screen and provide models for future studies.

Book Stages of Life in Theatre  Film  and Television

Download or read book Stages of Life in Theatre Film and Television written by Norman Lloyd and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1993 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Limelight). "Reading like a who's who of Broadway and Hollywood...[this] is a valuable piece of theatrical history...Lloyd is a self-effacing, articulate actor-director-producer whose stories are as insightful as they are warm and often humorous." Choice

Book Leopoldstadt

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tom Stoppard
  • Publisher : Grove Press
  • Release : 2020-08-25
  • ISBN : 0802157726
  • Pages : 125 pages

Download or read book Leopoldstadt written by Tom Stoppard and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play** Finally making its Broadway debut in a limited engagement run, Tom Stoppard’s humane and heartbreaking Olivier Award-winning play of love, family, and endurance At the beginning of the twentieth century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, a city humming with artistic and intellectual excitement. Stoppard’s epic yet intimate drama centers on Hermann Merz, a manufacturer and baptized Jew married to Catholic Gretl, whose extended family convene at their fashionable apartment on Christmas Day in 1899. Yet by the time the play closes, Austria has passed through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust, which stole the lives of 65,000 Austrian Jews alone. From one of today’s most acclaimed playwrights, Leopoldstadt is a human and heartbreaking drama of literary brilliance, historical verisimilitude, and powerful emotion.

Book Gwen Verdon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Shelley
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2015-10-27
  • ISBN : 1476621039
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Gwen Verdon written by Peter Shelley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American dancer, singer and actress Gwen Verdon (1925-2000) won four Tony awards for her work on Broadway and also appeared in films and on television. Stricken with rickets as a child, Verdon overcame severe leg deformity through ballet training, making her film debut at 11 as a solo ballerina in the musical The King Steps Out (1936). Her theater credits include Can-Can (1953-1955), Damn Yankees (1955-1956), Redhead (1959-1960), New Girl in Town (1957-1958), Sweet Charity (1966-1967) and Chicago (1975-1977). When not dancing on stage or screen, she coached other actors, such as Jane Russell, Lana Turner, Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe and Shirley MacLaine. This first full-length biography of Verdon covers her life and career, her individual performances and her collaborations with choreographers Jack Cole and Bob Fosse, her husband.

Book LIFE

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1944-08-07
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1944-08-07 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Book Peter Pan on Stage and Screen  1904 2010  2d ed

Download or read book Peter Pan on Stage and Screen 1904 2010 2d ed written by Bruce K. Hanson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounting the more than century-long stage and screen history of J.M. Barrie's play Peter Pan, Bruce K. Hanson updates and expands his 1993 volume on "The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up." Hanson traces the origin of Barrie's tale through the first London production in 1904, to various British and American theatrical and film productions up to and including the stage versions of 2010. Included are excerpts of interviews with actresses Dinah Sheridan, Mary Martin and Sandy Duncan, all of whom portrayed Peter Pan on stage, and Betty Comden and Adolph Green, lyricists for the 1954 Broadway musical. The book features a wealth of rare photos, posters, programs and costume designs. An appendix lists virtually every actor who has performed a featured role in a London, Broadway or Hollywood production of Peter Pan from 1904 to the present.

Book The National Underwriter

Download or read book The National Underwriter written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Army Life and United States Army Recruiting News

Download or read book Army Life and United States Army Recruiting News written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Double Lives  Film Composers in the Concert Hall

Download or read book Double Lives Film Composers in the Concert Hall written by James Wierzbicki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Double Lives: Film Composers in the Concert Hall is a collection of fifteen essays dealing with ‘iconic’ film composers who, perhaps to the surprise of many fans of film music, nevertheless maintained lifelong careers as composers for the concert hall. Featured composers include Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Franz Waxman, Miklós Rózsa, Bernard Herrmann, Nino Rota, Leonard Rosenman, and Ennio Morricone. Progressing in chronological order, the chapters offer accounts of the various composers’ concert-hall careers and descriptions of their concert-hall styles. Each chapter compares the composer’s music for films with his or her music for the concert hall, and speculates as to how music in one arena might have affected music in the other. For each composer discussed in the book, complete filmographies and complete works lists are included as appendices. Double Lives: Film Composers in the Concert Hall is accessible for scholars, researchers, and general readers with an interest in film music and concert music.