Research Catalog

Title

Samuel Beckett and cinema / Anthony Paraskeva

Author

Paraskeva, Anthony

Publication

• London : New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Description

[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

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Film
• Motion pictures and literature
• Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 > Criticism and interpretation

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