Theater and Film
Title | Theater and Film PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Knopf |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 458 |
Release | 2008-10-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780300128703 |
This is the first book in more than twenty-five years to examine the complex historical, cultural, and aesthetic relationship between theater and film, and the effect that each has had on the other’s development.Robert Knopf here assembles essays from performers, directors, writers, and critics that illuminate this ongoing inquiry. The book is divided into five parts—historical influence, comparisons and contrasts, writing, directing, and acting—with interludes by major artists whose work and words have shaped the development of theater and film. A comprehensive bibliography and filmography support further work in this area.The book contains contributions from Susan Sontag, Stanley Kauffmann, Sarah Bey-Cheng, Bertolt Brecht, Ingmar Bergman, Harold Pinter, David Mamet, Julia Taymor, Judi Dench, Sam Waterston, Orson Welles, Antonin Artaud, and Milos Forman, among others.
Analyzing Performance
Title | Analyzing Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Patrice Pavis |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | 374 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780472066896 |
An indispensable guide for the study of performance, by France's leading theater critic, now available in English
When Movies Were Theater
Title | When Movies Were Theater PDF eBook |
Author | William Paul |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 408 |
Release | 2016-05-24 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0231541376 |
There was a time when seeing a movie meant more than seeing a film. The theater itself shaped the very perception of events on screen. This multilayered history tells the story of American film through the evolution of theater architecture and the surprisingly varied ways movies were shown, ranging from Edison's 1896 projections to the 1968 Cinerama premiere of Stanley Kubrick's 2001. William Paul matches distinct architectural forms to movie styles, showing how cinema's roots in theater influenced business practices, exhibition strategies, and film technologies.
Drafting Scenery for Theater, Film, and Television
Title | Drafting Scenery for Theater, Film, and Television PDF eBook |
Author | Rich Rose |
Publisher | Betterway Books |
Total Pages | 186 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Drawing |
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Introduces drafting tools and equipment, line types and weights, and lettering techniques, and covers designer's elevations, perspective sketches, and special graphic techniques.
At a Theater or Drive-in Near You
Title | At a Theater or Drive-in Near You PDF eBook |
Author | Randall Clark |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 248 |
Release | 2013-12-17 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1317929098 |
Millions of Americans have been thrilled, scared, titillated, and shocked by exploitation movies, low budget films with many scenes of sex, violence, and other potentially lurid elements. The term derives from the fact that promoters of such films exploit the contents in advertising that plays up the sexual or violent aspects of the films. This is the first comprehensive study of the American exploitation film to be published. It discusses five distinct genres: the teen movie, the sexploitation film, the martial arts movie, the blaxploitation film and the lawbreaker picture. Contained within these genres are many popular American film types, including beach movies, biker pictures, and women's prison movies. The study provides a history and sociopolitical analysis of each genre, focusing on significant films in those genres. It also discusses the economics of exploitation films and their place in the motion picture industry, the development of drive-in theaters, the significance of the teenage audience, and the effect of the videocassette. Finally, the book applies major film and cultural theories to establish an aesthetic for evaluating the exploitation film and to explore the relationship between film and audience.
Playwriting for Theater, Film, and Television
Title | Playwriting for Theater, Film, and Television PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Annawyn Shamas |
Publisher | Betterway Books |
Total Pages | 180 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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Book on Acting
Title | Book on Acting PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Book |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 664 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
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"The Improvisation Technique is then applied to exercises with scripted lines, developing sophisticated improvisation skills for enhancing character, emotions, conflict, and agreement as well as improving the actor's audition process. Also included is a unique process for breaking down scripted scenes into improvisation choices."--BOOK JACKET.