(P/B) STAGING THE SCREEN

Παρουσίαση

The use of film and video is widespread in contemporary theatre, viewed by some as contaminating theatre's 'liveness', hailed by others as an inevitable and exciting response to screen-based culture. Beginning with early 20th-century practitioners such as Melies, Painleve and Piscator, and proceeding, via the Fluxus movement and Josef Svoboda, to examine contemporary practitioners such as The Wooster Croup, Forkbeard Fantasy, Forced Entertainment, The Builders Association and Robert Lepage, Staging the Screen charts the impact of developing technologies on practices in scenography, dramaturgy and performance.
Greg Giesekam raises critical and theoretical questions about the use of multimedia and intermedia, examining how the aesthetic strategies of key practitioners and changing approaches to cultural production have radically challenged dominant theatre practice. Extensively illustrated, this clear and accessible text provides detailed and evocative case studies of individual productions from a wide range of contemporary theatre companies. An invaluable resource for students wishing to navigate their way through an expanding and exciting area of theatre practice. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

List of Figures
General Editors' 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
Notes
A Selective Bibliography
Index