Beckett and media / [edited by] Balazs Rapcsak, Mark Nixon and Philipp Schweighauser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rapcsak, Balazs, Editor.

Contributor:

Nixon, Mark., Editor.

Schweighauser, Philipp., Editor.

Rapcsak, Balazs

Nixon, Mark

Schweighauser, Philipp

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Criticism and interpretation.

Beckett, Samuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2022.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Featuring twelve original essays by leading Beckett scholars and media theorists, this book provides the first sustained examination of the relationship between Beckett and media technologies. The chapters analyse the rich variety of technical objects, semiotic arrangements, communication processes and forms of data processing that Beckett’s work so uniquely engages with, as well as those that – in historically changing configurations – determine the continuing performance, the audience reception, and the scholarly study of this work. Greatly enlarging the scope of earlier discussions, the book draws on a variety of innovative theoretical approaches, such as media archaeology, in order to discuss Beckett’s intermedial oeuvre. As such it engages with Beckett as a media artist and examine the way his engagement with media technologies continues to speak to our cultural situation.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Figures and tables

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

I: Literature and theatre

1 In search of times gone by

2 Beckett's exhausted media

3 Micro-drama / techno-trauma

4 Electrifying theatre

5 Beckett, the proscenium, media

II: Screens and airwaves

6 Beckett's intermedial bodies

7 Angles of immunity

8 Beckett's affective telepoetics

9 Understanding Quad

10 Black screens

III: Digital Beckett

11 Directing Play in digital culture

12 Editing Beckett in digital media

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781526145840

1526145847

OCLC:

1346828035

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access