Stage and screen
Subtitle: adaptation theory from 1916 to 2000
By: edited by Bert Cardullo
Publisher: Continuum; Bloomsbury
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781441168696; 9781441110930; 9781441170156
Subjects: Film adaptations; Stage adaptations
Other titles: Adaptation theory from 1916 to 2000
Description: Far too often young theater and film artists, as well as educators, make the jump from film to theater without being fully aware of the ways in which the qualities of each medium affect content and artistic expression. Starting with a history of the relationship between theater and film, the collection includes essays from a variety of writers, directors, and theorists by examining the differences between working in, and creating for, drama and film. The playwright Bernard Shaw looks at the differences between the two industries, audiences, and writing processes affect the author's artistic control. Critic-theorists like Siegfried Kracauer and Susan Sontag consider the similarities and differences that arise from the intrinsic qualities of each medium, touching on structure, technique, and dialogue, as well as audience experience. Professor Cardullo's collection provides a theoretical and practical foundation for understanding the effect that film and drama have had, and continue to have, on each other's development.
Notes: Includes filmography (p. 231-250), bibliographical references (p. 253-267), and index.
Table of contents: title: Theater versus film : an historical introduction; title: Thirty differences between the photoplays and the stage (1916) / Vachel Lindsay; title: The means of the photoplay (1916) / Hugo Münsterberg; title: The drama, the theatre, and the films (1925) / Bernard Shaw; title: Style and medium in the motion pictures (1934) / Erwin Panofsky; title: A new Laocoön : artistic composites and the talking film (1938) / Rudolf Arnheim; title: Film reality : the cinema and the theatre (1936) / Allardyce Nicoll; title: Theater and the cinema (1951) / André Bazin; title: Stanislavsky's system in the cinema (1953) / Vsevolod Pudovkin; title: Acting in film and theatre (1955) / Josef von Sternberg; title: The theatrical story (1960) / Siegfried Kracauer; title: Movies versus theatre : the case for the theatre (1962) / Tyrone Guthrie; title: Movies versus theatre : the case for the movies (1962) / Carl Foreman; title: Finding Shakespeare on film (1964) / Peter Brook; title: Film and theatre (1966) / Susan Sontag; title: Filmmaker, actor, and audience; dramatist, screenwriter, and director (1979) / Roger Manvell; title: Theater and film, or Adolphe Appia and me (1988) / Hans-Jürgen Syberberg; title: Playing to the camera or the house : stage vs. screen acting (1998) / Bert Cardullo; title: Drama into film (2000) / Thomas Erskine and James Welsh.