Samuel Beckett and cinema / Anthony Paraskeva.
| Author/creator |
Paraskeva, Anthony author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017. |
| Description | 195 pages ; 24 cm. |
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| Series | Historicizing Modernism Historicizing modernism. ^A1144194 |
| Summary | In 1936 Samuel Beckett wrote a letter to Sergei Eisenstein - the legendary director of such films as Battleship Potemkin - expressing his own desire to work in the lost tradition of silent film. Drawing on substantial archival material, this 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. Examining his writing on second wave modernist cinema, including the work of directors such as Eisenstein, Godard, Griffith and Bresson as well as performers such as Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Greta Garbo, the book reveals film art to be central to Beckett's modernist aesthetic. In this way, Beckett is revealed to be part of a wider modernist theatrical tradition that stood as an inheritor of early 20th century cinema, alongside Meyerhold, Brecht and Artaud. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Paraskeva, Anthony. Samuel Beckett and cinema. London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017 9781472527370 |
| ISBN | 9781472524980 hardback |
| ISBN | 1472524985 hardback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | PR6003 .E282 Z78573 2017 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |