Beckett on Screen: The television Plays
()
About this ebook
This ground-breaking study analyses Beckett’s television plays in relation to the history and theory of television. It argues that they are in dialogue with innovative television traditions connected to Modernism in television, film, radio, theatre, literature and the visual arts.
Using original research from BBC archives and manuscript sources, the book provides new perspectives on the relationships between Beckett’s television dramas and the wider television culture of Britain and Europe. It also compares and contrasts the plays for television with Beckett’s Film and broadcasts of his theatre work including the recent Beckett on Film season. Chapters deal with the production process of the plays, the broadcasting contexts in which they were screened, institutions and authorship, the plays’ relationships with comparable programmes and films and reaction to Beckett’s screen work by audiences and critics.
This book is a major contribution to Beckett scholarship and to studies of television drama. It will be essential reading in literature and drama studies, television historiography and for devotees of Beckett’s work.
Jonathan Bignell
Jonathan Bignell is Reader in Television and Film at the University of Reading, and Director of the Centre for Television Drama Studies
Related to Beckett on Screen
Related ebooks
Adapting Performance Between Stage and Screen Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAndre Bazin's New Media Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPerforming New Media, 1890–1915 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Place of Artists' Cinema: Space, Site, and Screen Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMike Leigh Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRhetoric and Representation in Nonfiction Film Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsExperimental British television Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSo You Want To Be A Theatre Designer? Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Using film as a source Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBeckett and media Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Death of Character: Perspectives on Theater after Modernism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Henrik Ibsen Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPractising the Real on the Contemporary Stage Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStreet theatre and the production of postindustrial space: Working memories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDirecting Tennessee Williams: Joe Hill-Gibbins on The Glass Menagerie Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsV. F. Perkins on Movies: Collected Shorter Film Criticism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInterrogating the Image: Movies and the World of Film and Television Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsScreening Neoliberalism: Transforming Mexican Cinema, 1988-2012 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFilm modernism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDouble Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Cinematic Sublime: Negative Pleasures, Structuring Absences Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSurprise: The Poetics of the Unexpected from Milton to Austen Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTheatre and Performance in Small Nations Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHollywood romantic comedy: States of Union, 1934–1965 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSwedish Film: An Introduction and a Reader Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKurt Kren: Structural Films Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBrecht in L.A.: Brecht in L.A. Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Swann's Way Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIndependent Theatre in Contemporary Europe: Structures - Aesthetics - Cultural Policy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPerforming Palimpsest Bodies: Postmemory Theatre Experiments in Mexico Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Literary Criticism For You
Killers of the Flower Moon: by David Grann | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The 48 Laws of Power: by Robert Greene | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/512 Rules For Life: by Jordan Peterson | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Reader’s Companion to J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As I Lay Dying Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Court of Thorns and Roses: A Novel by Sarah J. Maas | Conversation Starters Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Man's Search for Meaning: by Viktor E. Frankl | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Book of Virtues Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Between the World and Me: by Ta-Nehisi Coates | Conversation Starters Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Circe: by Madeline Miller | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Seduction: by Robert Greene | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Great Alone: by Kristin Hannah | Conversation Starters Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5SUMMARY Of The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in Healthy Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Letters to a Young Poet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Speed Reading: How to Read a Book a Day - Simple Tricks to Explode Your Reading Speed and Comprehension Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain | Conversation Starters Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Power of Habit: by Charles Duhigg | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5One Hundred Years of Solitude: A Novel by Gabriel Garcia Márquez | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Beckett on Screen
0 ratings0 reviews