Stage-play and screen-play : the intermediality of theatre and cinema / Michael Ingham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ingham, Michael (Michael Anthony), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film adaptations--History and criticism.

Film adaptations.

Stage adaptations--History and criticism.

Stage adaptations.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

229 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

Dialogue between film and theatre studies is often hampered by the lack of a shared vocabulary. Stage-Play and Screen-Play sets out to remedy this by mapping out an interdisciplinary space in which film and theatre can be examined. Michael Ingham grounds his re-reading of stage-to-screen and screen-to-stage transfer in fresh case studies, ranging from the popular stage adaptation of Hitchcock's film of The 39 Steps to NT Live's simulcast of David Harems Skylight, and from Peter Bogdanovich's film adaptation of Michael Frayn's Norses Off to Vishal Bhardwaj's transcultural Haider (Hamlet). Drawing upon the growing field of adaptation studies, this volume explores the wide variety of connections and dialogues between the two media. Offering a fresh insight into the ways in which film and theatre communicate dramatic performances, Stage-Play and Screen-Play is a significant step towards the truly interdisciplinary study of stage and screen. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: All the screen's a stage; the critical-theoretical background

"Inexplicable dumb-shows" stage drama and adaptation in the silent movie era

Staging cinema: from "cinefied" theatre to "theatred" film

"A monster of the multitude": simulcast and 'captured live' versions of stage dramas

Filmed theatre: "cinema can be theatrical"

Complementary forms: the play-within-the-film

"The truth of cinematography"

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138841031

113884103X

9781138841048

1138841048

OCLC:

956379218