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Samuel Beckett and Cinema
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Description de l'ouvrage :
In 1936, Samuel Beckett wrote a letter to the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein expressing a desire to work in the lost tradition of silent film. The production of Beckett's Film in 1964, on the cusp of his work as a director for stage and screen, coincides with a widespread revival of silent film in the period of cinema's modernist second wave.
Drawing on recently published letters, archival material and production notebooks, Samuel Beckett and Cinema 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. The book situates Beckett within the context of first and second wave modernist filmmaking, including the work of figures such as Vertov, Keaton, Lang, Epstein, Flaherty, Dreyer, Godard, Bresson, Resnais, Duras, Rogosin and Hitchcock.
By examining the parallels between Beckett's methods, as a writer-director, and particular techniques, such as the embodied presence of the camera, the use of asynchronous sound, and the cross-pollination of theatricality and cinema, as well as the connections between his collaborators and the nouvelle vague, the book reveals how Beckett's aesthetic is fundamentally altered by his work for the screen, and his formative encounters with modernist film culture.
À propos de l'auteur :
Anthony Paraskeva is Lecturer in English and Film at the University of Dundee, UK. He is the author of The Speech-Gesture Complex: Modernism, Theatre, Cinema.Erik Tonning is Professor of English at NLA University College, Norway, and Professor II of British Literature and Culture at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is co-editor of the Modernist Archives series and the Historicizing Modernism series, both published by Bloomsbury. He is the author of Samuel Beckett's Abstract Drama andModernism and Christianity, as well as the editor of a number of volumes on modernism.Matthew Feldman is Emeritus Professor in the Modern History of Ideas, Professional Fellow at the University of York, UK.
Revue de Presse :
"By examining a vast array of early European films that Beckett is known to have seen from the 1930s onward, Paraskeva makes even Beckett’s latest and shortest works shine with newly found intertextual brilliance … a truly remarkable contribution to Beckett Studies― especially in Paraskeva’s intrepid research through loads of European films." ―James Joyce Literary Supplement
"Paraskeva successfully realizes the goal of exploring the various influences of first and second wave modernist cinema on Beckett’s work and directing practice. Through his thorough, incisive, and engaging analysis and methodical comparison, Paraskeva provides us with a great read not only of Beckett’s oeuvre but also of the other examples present in his research, and his diligently researched book should be considered necessary reading for anyone wishing to study Beckett’s work for film and television." - Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature
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