Theater and Cinema

Contrasts in Media,1916 - 1966

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by Robert Cardullo

Type

Studies

Subject

Theory

Keywords

theory, theater

Publishing date

2011

Publisher

Academica Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 264 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-9363202-4-0

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Book Presentation:
By focusing on the important early theoretical writings about these two media, Theater and Cinema: Contrasts in Media, 1916-1966 becomes one of the first books in over thirty-five years to examine the historical, cultural, and aesthetic relationships between theater and film. As we move through the twenty-first century, almost all artists, students, and critics working in theater will have had earlier and greater exposure to film than to theater. In fact, film has become central to the way in which we perceive and formulate stories, images, ideas, and sounds. At the same time, film, video, and digital media occupy an increasingly significant place in theater study, both for the adaptation of plays and for the documentation or preservation of theatrical performances. Yet far too often young theater and film artists, as well as educators, make the jump from one medium to the other without being fully aware of the ways in which the qualities of each medium affect content and artistic expression. This book is intended to fill such a gap by providing a theoretical and practical foundation for understanding the effect that film and drama have had, and continue to have, on each other s development. The theoretical as well as practical foundation provided by the writings in this volume, furthermore, is the one established during the fifty years from 1916 to 1966, when, despite the advent of the feature-length film, the introduction of sound, and the triumph of color, the theater was still seen as a serious artistic rival to the cinema. The introduction to Theater and Cinema provides a history of the relationship between theater and film, starting with the pre-cinematic, late nineteenth-century impulse towards capturing spectacular action on the stage and examining the artistic and commercial interaction between film and drama, both in popular and experimental work, throughout the twentieth century. By attempting to trace the cross-fertilization between theater and film connecting the business practices of the evolving Hollywood system, for example, to the types of artistic appropriation in which Broadway has long engaged the introduction provides an historical context for the essays to come, while arguing for the vital importance of an understanding of both theater and film to the contemporary practice of either.

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About the Author:
Robert Cardullo is Professor of Media and Communication at the Izmir University of Economics in Izmir, Turkey, where he teaches courses in film history, theory, and criticism as well as popular culture. He was formerly on the faculty of the University of Michigan. The author of over 250 articles, notes, and reviews, he is also the author, editor, or translator of more than thirty books, among them A Critical Edition of Two Modern Plays on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff; Theater of the Avant-Garde, 1890-1950: A Critical Anthology; The Theater of Fernand Crommelynck: Eight Plays; and German-Language Comedy: A Critical Anthology,Antigone Adapted (2011)

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