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Samuel Beckett and cinema

Title
Samuel Beckett and cinema / Anthony Paraskeva
Author
Paraskeva, Anthony
Publication
  • London : New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2017]
  • ©2017

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[vi], 195 pages; 24 cm
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.
Series Statement
Historicizing modernism
Uniform Title
Historicizing modernism.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (page 176-188) and index.
Call Number
JFE 17-2610
ISBN
  • 9781472524980
  • 1472524985
OCLC
860395552
Author
Paraskeva, Anthony, author.
Title
Samuel Beckett and cinema / Anthony Paraskeva
Publisher
London : New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2017]
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Historicizing modernism
Historicizing modernism.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 176-188) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 17-2610
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