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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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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
- 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 modernismHistoricizing modernism.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (page 176-188) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-2610