Beckett On Screen

Author : Jonathan Bignell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847795649

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Beckett on Screen by Jonathan Bignell Pdf

This ground-breaking study analyses Beckett’s television plays in relation to the history and theory of television. It argues that they are in dialogue with innovative television traditions connected to Modernism in television, film, radio, theatre, literature and the visual arts. Using original research from BBC archives and manuscript sources, the book provides new perspectives on the relationships between Beckett’s television dramas and the wider television culture of Britain and Europe. It also compares and contrasts the plays for television with Beckett’s Film and broadcasts of his theatre work including the recent Beckett on Film season. Chapters deal with the production process of the plays, the broadcasting contexts in which they were screened, institutions and authorship, the plays’ relationships with comparable programmes and films and reaction to Beckett’s screen work by audiences and critics. This book is a major contribution to Beckett scholarship and to studies of television drama. It will be essential reading in literature and drama studies, television historiography and for devotees of Beckett’s work.

Author : Anthony Uhlmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107017030

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Samuel Beckett in Context by Anthony Uhlmann Pdf

Provides a comprehensive exploration of Beckett's historical, cultural and philosophical contexts, offering new critical insights for scholars and general readers.

Author : Anthony Paraskeva
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472527370

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Samuel Beckett and Cinema by Anthony Paraskeva Pdf

In 1936, Samuel Beckett wrote a letter to the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein expressing a desire to work in the lost tradition of silent film. The production of Beckett's Film in 1964, on the cusp of his work as a director for stage and screen, coincides with a widespread revival of silent film in the period of cinema's modernist second wave. Drawing on recently published letters, archival material and production notebooks, Samuel Beckett and Cinema is the first book to examine comprehensively the full extent of Beckett's engagement with cinema and its influence on his work for stage and screen. The book situates Beckett within the context of first and second wave modernist filmmaking, including the work of figures such as Vertov, Keaton, Lang, Epstein, Flaherty, Dreyer, Godard, Bresson, Resnais, Duras, Rogosin and Hitchcock. By examining the parallels between Beckett's methods, as a writer-director, and particular techniques, such as the embodied presence of the camera, the use of asynchronous sound, and the cross-pollination of theatricality and cinema, as well as the connections between his collaborators and the nouvelle vague, the book reveals how Beckett's aesthetic is fundamentally altered by his work for the screen, and his formative encounters with modernist film culture.

Author : Anthony Paraskeva
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472533234

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Samuel Beckett and Cinema by Anthony Paraskeva Pdf

In 1936, Samuel Beckett wrote a letter to the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein expressing a desire to work in the lost tradition of silent film. The production of Beckett's Film in 1964, on the cusp of his work as a director for stage and screen, coincides with a widespread revival of silent film in the period of cinema's modernist second wave. Drawing on recently published letters, archival material and production notebooks, Samuel Beckett and Cinema is the first book to examine comprehensively the full extent of Beckett's engagement with cinema and its influence on his work for stage and screen. The book situates Beckett within the context of first and second wave modernist filmmaking, including the work of figures such as Vertov, Keaton, Lang, Epstein, Flaherty, Dreyer, Godard, Bresson, Resnais, Duras, Rogosin and Hitchcock. By examining the parallels between Beckett's methods, as a writer-director, and particular techniques, such as the embodied presence of the camera, the use of asynchronous sound, and the cross-pollination of theatricality and cinema, as well as the connections between his collaborators and the nouvelle vague, the book reveals how Beckett's aesthetic is fundamentally altered by his work for the screen, and his formative encounters with modernist film culture.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571297085

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All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen by Samuel Beckett Pdf

This new edition brings together all of Beckett's dramatic writings for radio, television and film, offering works which range from eloquent comic naturalism to an eviscerated and pared-down symbolism. Above all, Beckett found his unique uses for the radio-play, a medium 'for voices not bodies', compacted of speech, sound and silence - and the plays in this volume intently explore the resources and limits of the sound-stage.My father, back from the dead, to be with me. (Pause.) As if he hadn't died. (Pause.) No, simply back from the dead, to be with me, in this strange place. (Pause.) Can he hear me? (Pause.) Yes, he must hear me. (Pause.) To answer me? (Pause.) No, he doesn't answer me. (Pause.) Just be with me. (Pause.) That sound you hear is the sea. (Pause. Louder.) I say that sound you hear is the sea, we are sitting on the strand. (Pause.) I mention it because the sound is so strange, so unlike the sound of the sea, that if you didn't see what it was you wouldn't know what it was. (Pause.). Hooves!Contents: All That Fall, Embers, Words and Music, Eh Joe, Quad, Film, ...but the clouds..., Ghost Trio, Nacht und Träume, Rough for Radio I, Rough for Radio II, Cascando, The Old TunePreface and Notes by Everett Frost

Author : C. Gardner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137014368

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Beckett, Deleuze and the Televisual Event by C. Gardner Pdf

An expressive dialogue between Deleuze's philosophical writings on cinema and Beckett's innovative film and television work, the book explores the relationship between the birth of the event – itself a simultaneous invention and erasure - and Beckett's attempts to create an incommensurable space within the interstices of language as a (W)hole.

Author : Erik Tonning
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 3039110225

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Samuel Beckett's Abstract Drama by Erik Tonning Pdf

Samuel Beckett's Play, written 1962-63, was an aesthetic watershed inaugurating his late, 'abstract' dramatic style. This book gets close to Beckett's creative process by examining the possible influence of Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone music and Vassily Kandinsky's abstract painting upon this formal shift; by tracing Beckett's developing attitude to abstraction and its relation to his long-standing preoccupation with the 'breakdown' of the subject-object relation and the ultimate failure of all expression; and by following his formal choices through manuscript drafts. The author goes on to analyse Beckett's attempt to adapt his new methods to the media of film and television, and to demonstrate how Beckett's late works for stage and screen develop alongside one another right up to his 1985 adaptation of the play What Where for television. Throughout the book, unpublished manuscript materials such as Beckett's letters, drafts, notes on philosophy, psychology and art, and his 'German diaries' augment a detailed account of the submerged sources that Beckett appropriated to the evolving needs of his abstract dramatic art.

Author : Michael Y. Bennett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 803 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040001615

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The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature by Michael Y. Bennett Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature is the first authoritative and definitive edited collection on absurdist literature. As a field-defining volume, the editor and the contributors are world leaders in this ever-exciting genre that includes some of the most important and influential writers of the twentieth century, including Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Edward Albee, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet, and Albert Camus. Ever puzzling and always refusing to be pinned down, this book does not attempt to define absurdist literature, but attempts to examine its major and minor players. As such, the field is indirectly defined by examining its constituent writers. Not only investigating the so-called “Theatre of the Absurd,” this volume wades deeply into absurdist fiction and absurdist poetry, expanding much of our previous sense of what constitutes absurdist literature. Furthermore, long overdue, approximately one-third of the book is devoted to marginalized writers: black, Latin/x, female, LGBTQ+, and non-Western voices.

Author : Sidney Homan
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : 0838752349

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Filming Beckett's Television Plays by Sidney Homan Pdf

If in the theater the rehearsal process is a way of "discovering" the play, of suggesting alternative readings, would the same hold true if the critic encountered works like Eh Joe, Ghost Trio, or Quad by going through the actual process of filming and then editing them?

Author : G. Herren
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137109088

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Samuel Beckett's Plays on Film and Television by G. Herren Pdf

This is the first book devoted Beckett's innovative work for the big- and small-screens. Herren examines each of Beckett's film and television plays in depth, emphasizing the central role that memory plays in these haunting works.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789004468382

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Beckett’s Voices / Voicing Beckett by Anonim Pdf

Beckett’s Voices / Voicing Beckett uses ‘voice’ as a prism to investigate Samuel Beckett’s work across a range of texts, genres, and cultures. Twenty-one international contributors evaluate Beckett’s contemporary artistic legacy in relation to music, media, performance, and philosophy.

Author : Katharine Worth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0198187793

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Samuel Beckett's Theatre by Katharine Worth Pdf

The critical discussion highlights the unique fusion on Beckett's stage of cosmic scenery and humorous individualism."--Jacket.

Author : Thirthankar Chakraborty,Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501358821

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Samuel Beckett as World Literature by Thirthankar Chakraborty,Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez Pdf

The essays in this collection provide in-depth analyses of Samuel Beckett's major works in the context of his international presence and circulation, particularly the translation, adaptation, appropriation and cultural reciprocation of his oeuvre. A Nobel Prize winner who published and self-translated in both French and English across literary genres, Beckett is recognized on a global scale as a preeminent author and dramatist of the 20th century. Samuel Beckett as World Literature brings together a wide range of international contributors to share their perspectives on Beckett's presence in countries such as China, Japan, Serbia, India and Brazil, among others, and to flesh out Beckett's relationship with postcolonial literatures and his place within the 'canon' of world literature.

Author : S. E. Gontarski
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405158695

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A Companion to Samuel Beckett by S. E. Gontarski Pdf

A collection of original essays by a team of leading Beckett scholars and two of his biographers, Companion to Samuel Beckett provides a comprehensive critical reappraisal of the literary works of Samuel Beckett. Builds on the resurgence of international Beckett scholarship since the centenary of his birth, and reflects the wealth of newly released archival sources Informed by the latest in scholarly, critical, and theoretical debates A valuable addition to contemporary Beckett scholarship, and testament to the enduring influence of Beckett’s work and his position as one of the most important literary figures of our time

Author : Charles A. Carpenter
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781441184214

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The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett by Charles A. Carpenter Pdf