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Screening The Stage
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Author : Steven Neale
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2017-06-06
Screening The Stage written by Steven Neale and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-06 with Art categories.
Introduced by a comprehensive account of the factors governing the adaptation of stage plays and musicals in Hollywood from the early 1910s to the mid-to-late 1950s, Screening the Stage consists of a series of chapter-length studies of feature-length films, the plays and musicals on which they were based, and their remakes where pertinent. Founded on an awareness of evolving technologies and industrial practices rather than the tenets of adaptation theory, particular attention is paid to the evolving practices of Hollywood as well as to the purport and structure of the plays and stage musicals on which the film versions were based. Each play or musical is contextualized and summarized in detail, and each film is analyzed so as to pinpoint the ways in which they articulate, modify, or rework the former. Examples range from dramas, comedies, melodramas, musicals, operettas, thrillers, westerns and war film, and include The Squaw Man, The Poor Little Rich Girl, The Merry Widow, 7th Heaven, The Cocoanuts, Waterloo Bridge, Stage Door, I Remember Mama, The Pirate, Dial M for Murder and Attack.
Screening The Stage
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Author : Bert Cardullo
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
Release Date : 2006-01-01
Screening The Stage written by Bert Cardullo and has been published by Peter Lang Pub Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with Performing Arts categories.
This book examines the historical, cultural, and aesthetic relationships between theater and film. As we enter the 21st century, almost all artists, students, and critics working in theater will have had earlier and greater exposure to film than to theater. In fact, film has become central to the way in which we perceive and formulate stories, images, ideas, and sounds. At the same time, film and video occupy an increasingly significant place in theater study, both for the adaptation of plays and for the documentation and preservation of theatrical performances. Yet far too often theater and film artists, as well as educators, make the jump from one medium to the other without being fully aware of the ways in which the qualities of each medium affect content and artistic expression. This book is intended to fill such a gap by providing a theoretical and practical foundation for understanding the effect that film and drama have had, and continue to have, on each other's development. Moreover, this study provides a history of the relationship between drama and cinema, starting with the pre-cinematic, late 19th-century impulse towards capturing spectacular action on the stage and examining the artistic and commercial interaction between movies and plays, both in popular and experimental work, throughout the 20th century. Important subjects treated in this book include stage versus screen acting, the adaptation process itself, the theatrical as well as the cinematic avant-garde, and the « portability or adaptability of dramatic character.
Stage To Screen Theatrical Method From Garrick To Griffith
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Author : A. Nicholas Vardac
language : en
Publisher: Davidson Press
Release Date : 2008-11
Stage To Screen Theatrical Method From Garrick To Griffith written by A. Nicholas Vardac and has been published by Davidson Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11 with Drama categories.
STAGE TO SCREEN i THEATRICAL METHOD FROM 6ARRICE TO GRIFFITH A. NICHOLAS VARDAG HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE 1949 TO SPYROS P. SKOURAS PREFACE The position of the motion picture in the evolution of the theatre of the world has yet to be determined. Much has been written in description and in critical analysis of the film. These studies spread roots like aerial plants through a fruitless vacuum. The atmosphere of nineteenth-century theatre has yet to be cleared and the proper source of cinema exposed. A new art form does not simply appear. In aesthetic as well as scientific and political areas the old dies as the new is born, the whole process being as in sistent as it is gradual. The time has come to see how the film fits into the evolutionary pattern of world theatre, how the blood stream of the screen was drawn from the stage, and how, under the pressure of this withdrawal, certain stage forms died upon the boards. The roots of a new art form are to be found in the sociological needs and tensions, in the spirit of the times, which sponsor its growth. This tension is so thoroughly woven into the cultural fabric that it can best be identified through its expression in the arts, in this case, in the related arts of theatre and of staging. In this fashion the spiritual, the sociological, and most of all, the aesthetic roots of the motion picture can be revealed through a composite study of both the early film and theatrical methods during the years leading to and surrounding its birth. The patterns within this period of theatrical history, as yet uncharted, must be traced by direct scrutiny of the spectacular promptbooks and the revealing periodical accounts of productions appearingduring these years. From this body of source material the expression as well as the motivation of the forces, the social tensions, working behind the aesthetic strivings of the popular nineteenth-century stage, the early twentieth-century popular the atre, the early twentieth-century experimental producers the atre and finally the motion picture, will appear in their distinct vii PREFACE and special relationship. A more complete and accurate under standing of stage and screen will arise. I should like to acknowledge my gratitude to Professor Al lardyce Nicoll for his inestimable support of the ideas of this study. To Dr. William VanLennep, Curator of the Harvard Theatre Collection, I am indebted for much valuable material. Untapped sources in that great collection eventually disclosed the use of cinematic devices upon the stage of the nineteenth century. To Miss Iris Barry, Curator of the Film Library of the Museum of Modern Art, may I express appreciation for courtesy and con sideration in the arrangement of special showings of early Ameri can and foreign films. I am particularly grateful to Mr. Percy MacKaye, whose interest in my subject has made possible the use of material concerning the work of his father, Steele MacKaye, which otherwise might not have been available for presentation at this time. And for the careful editorial perusal of Professor Hubert C. Hef ier both the reader and myself will find, I am sure, good reason for gratitude. A. NICHOLAS VARDAC Palo Alto, California June 1947 vtti CONTEHTS INTRODUCTION REALISM - ROMANCE - AND THE DEVELOP MENT OF THE MOTION PICTURE xvii I THEATRES . STAGING METHODS - AND THE BREAKDOWN OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY CONVENTIONS i II THEMELODRAMA CINEMATIC CONCEP TIONS AND SCREEN TECHNIQUES 20 III PICTURE PLAYS THE SPECTACLE STAGE 68 IV THE PHOTOGRAPHIC IDEAL 89 HENRY IRVING 89 DAVID BELASCO 108 STEELE MACKAYE 155 V PICTORIAL FANTASY THE PANTOMIME SPECTACLE 152 VI PHOTOGRAPHIC REALISM THE BIRTH OF THE FILM 1895-1902 165 VII PICTORIAL FANTASY GEORGE MfiLIfcS 174 MELODRAMA THE PHOTOPLAY - 1902-1913 180 IX IX REALISM AND ROMANCE D. W. GRIFFITH 199 X SPECTACLE THE FEATURE FILM an XI FROM GARRICK TO GRIFFITH 34 NOTES 55 INDEX 73 . . MJ ...
Screened Stages
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Author : Rachel Joseph
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-02-28
Screened Stages written by Rachel Joseph and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-28 with Performing Arts categories.
This book is devoted to tracing the variety of ways that theatre, theatricality, and performance are embedded in Hollywood cinema as screened stages. A screened stage is the literal or metaphorical appearance of a stage on screen. When the Hollywood style emerged in cinema history it traumatically severed the entwined relationship between film and theatre. The book makes the argument that cinema longs for theatre after that separation. The histories of stage and screen persistently crisscross one another making their separation problematic. The screened stage from the end of the nineteenth century until now offers a miniaturized version of cinema and theatre history. Moments of the stage within the screen compress historical styles and movements into saturated representations on film. Such examples overflow the cinematic screen into singular manifestations of presentness. Screened stages uncover what it means to be simultaneously present and absent. This book would be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre, film, dance, and performance.
Stage Play And Screen Play
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Author : Michael Ingham
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-12-08
Stage Play And Screen Play written by Michael Ingham and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-08 with Performing Arts categories.
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.
Shakespeare From Stage To Screen
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Author : Sarah Hatchuel
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-08-12
Shakespeare From Stage To Screen written by Sarah Hatchuel and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
How is a Shakespearean play transformed when it is directed for the screen? In this 2004 book, Sarah Hatchuel uses literary criticism, narratology, performance history, psychoanalysis and semiotics to analyse how the plays are fundamentally altered in their screen versions. She identifies distinct strategies chosen by film directors to appropriate the plays. Instead of providing just play-by-play or film-by-film analyses, the book addresses the main issues of theatre/film aesthetics, making such theories and concepts accessible before applying them to practical cases. Her book also offers guidelines for the study of sequences in Shakespearean adaptations and includes examples from all the major films from the 1899 King John, through the adaptations by Olivier, Welles and Branagh, to Taymor's 2000 Titus and beyond. This book is aimed at scholars, teachers and students of Shakespeare and film studies, providing a clear and logical apparatus with which to examine Shakespearean screen adaptations.
Adapting Performance Between Stage And Screen
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Author : Victoria Lowe
language : en
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
Release Date : 2020
Adapting Performance Between Stage And Screen written by Victoria Lowe and has been published by Intellect (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Film adaptations categories.
An introduction to adaptations between theatre and film, considering these as distinct from literary adaptation. Places emphasis on performance and event, including the recent growth of digital theatre with phenomena such as NT Live. Case studies show how adaptations can't be divorced from the historical and cultural moment in which they are produced.
The Stage Screen Debate
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Author : Gregory Albert Waller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
The Stage Screen Debate written by Gregory Albert Waller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Motion pictures categories.
The Field Of Drama
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Author : Martin Esslin
language : en
Publisher: London ; New York : Methuen
Release Date : 1987
The Field Of Drama written by Martin Esslin and has been published by London ; New York : Methuen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Drama categories.
This book of criticism brings both theatre and film studies within a single theoretical framework.
Between Stage And Screen
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Author : Egil Törnqvist
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 1995
Between Stage And Screen written by Egil Törnqvist and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Performing Arts categories.
Ingmar Bergman (1918), by now responsible for about a hundred stage performances, forty radio productions, fifty feature films and fifteen TV productions, has for more than half a century combined an impressive versatility with a very marked individual signature. None of the many books on Bergman has so far attempted to compare Bergman's stage and screen activities - despite the fact that he has been an outstanding and very productive director in both areas and despite his own statement that 'the distance between the theater and the film studio has always been a short one'.