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Staging the Screen Greg Giesekam

Staging the Screen By Greg Giesekam

Staging the Screen by Greg Giesekam


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Summary

The use of film and video is widespread in contemporary theatre. Staging the Screen explores a variety of productions, ranging from Piscator to Forced Entertainment, charting the impact of developing technologies on practices in dramaturgy and performance. Giesekam addresses critical issues raised by multi-media work and inter-media work

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Staging the Screen: The Use of Film and Video in Theatre by Greg Giesekam

The use of film and video is widespread in contemporary theatre. Staging the Screen explores a variety of productions, ranging from Piscator to Forced Entertainment, charting the impact of developing technologies on practices in dramaturgy and performance. Giesekam addresses critical issues raised by multi-media work and inter-media work

Staging the Screen Reviews

'... of great use to students and scholars seeking either an introduction to the field or descriptions of many of the performances that helped to establish... the territory.' - Matthew Causey, Contemporary Theatre Review

About Greg Giesekam

GREG GIESEKAM sits on the Board with Ankur Productions and was a Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK until 2006. His publications on contemporary British theatre and contemporary performance art include A Descriptive Catalogue of the Archive of the National Review of Live Art (a reference website cataloguing over 200 performances, talks and installations from 1986-1996) and Luvvies and Rude Mechanicals? Amateur and Community Theatre in Scotland (Scottish Arts Council, 2000).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations.- General Editor's Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction: Contamination or Remediation?.- Magic to Realism: European Pioneers.- Polyscenicness: Josef Svoboda and Laterna Magika.- Big Screen to Small Screen.- Postmodern Collage: The Wooster Group.- Third-hand Photocopies: Forced Entertainment.- Live Films on Stage: The Builders Association.- Crossing the Celluloid Divide: Forkbeard Fantasy.- Quantum Theatre: Station House Opera.- Electric Campfires: Robert Lepage.- Conclusion.- Index.

Additional information

GOR006477175
9781403916990
1403916993
Staging the Screen: The Use of Film and Video in Theatre by Greg Giesekam
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Macmillan Education UK
2007-11-19
296
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