Samuel Beckett's plays on film and television / Graley Herren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herren, Graley.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Film adaptations.

Beckett, Samuel.

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.

Memory in literature.

Genre:

Film adaptations.

Physical Description:

x, 217 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

This is the first comprehensive study of Nobel Laureate Samuel Beckett's innovative work for the screen. Samuel Beckett's Plays on Film and Television provides meticulous analysis of every play Beckett wrote, directed, or adapted for the screen. Herren studies Beckett's use of "memory machines"-technological media for channeling personal, cultural, philosophical, and artistic ghosts from the post. Having conjured these ghosts, Beckett "decomposes" them in order to recompose them for distinctly innovative use. Herren traces this countraditional approach to tradition as-Beckett's signature style for film and television. The book concludes with a consideration of the Beckett on Film project, where Herren defends the vital need for creative freedom in future productions of Beckett's plays. With this publication, the film and television plays can now assume their rightful place alongside Beckett's remarkable fiction and stage plays, collectively constituting one of the most innovative artistic achievements of the twentieth century.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Beckett's Memory Machines 1

Chapter 2 Slouching toward Television: Beckett's Apprenticeship in Radio and Film 27

Chapter 3 "The Best's to Come": Suicidal Fantasy in Eh Joe 47

Chapter 4 Decomposing and Recomposing Ghost Trio 69

Chapter 5 Beckett's Double-Vision of Yeats in ...but the clouds... 93

Chapter 6 Quadrat I + II: Eff It with Color 123

Chapter 7 The Unanswered Prayers of Nacht und Traume 141

Chapter 8 Comedie, Was Wo, and the Challenges of Screen Adaptation 171.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-209) and index.

ISBN:

9781403977953

140397795X

OCLC:

137313352