Staging the screen : the use of film and video in theatre / Greg Giesekam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giesekam, Greg.

Series:

Theatre and performance practices

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater.

Multimedia (Art).

Performance art.

Physical Description:

ix, 280 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

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 Group, 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.

Contents:

Introduction: Contamination or Remediation? 1

1 Magic to Realism: European Pioneers 27

2 Polyscenicness: Josef Svoboda and Laterna Magika 51

3 Big Screen to Small Screen 72

4 Postmodern Collage: The Wooster Group 80

5 Third-hand Photocopies: Forced Entertainment 116

6 Live Films on Stage: The Builders Association 142

7 Crossing the Celluloid Divide: Forkbeard Fantasy 176

8 Quantum Theatre: Station House Opera 201

9 Electric Campfires: Robert Lepage 218.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781403916983

1403916985

1403916993

9781403916990

OCLC:

141384265