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Review of Theatre through the camera eye : the poetics of an intermedial encounter by Laura Sava
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Ryzhenko, Ilia (2021) Review of Theatre through the camera eye : the poetics of an intermedial encounter by Laura Sava. Open Screens, 4 (2). 19. doi:10.16995/os.8017 ISSN 2516-2888.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.16995/os.8017
Abstract
Theoretical considerations of the relationship between the media of theatre and cinema have existed ever since the younger artform’s inception. In the first half of the twentieth century, the primary concern regarded the independence of cinema as an artistic medium and its claim to be viewed separately from theatre and staged performance. Theatre was viewed as a threat to cinema’s identity as an artform, and much attention was paid to the unique possibilities afforded by the cinematographic apparatus1. This focus began to dissolve with cinema’s resolute mid-century establishment as a popular form of mass entertainment. In the post-war period, however, with the arrival of the European New Waves and their experimentation with reflexive narratives and intentionally jarring audiovisual presentation, critical attention shifted toward the ways in which modernist cinema began embracing a new form of an estranging, Brechtian ‘theatricality’. What is generally meant by theatricality in this context is a deliberate propensity of a film toward appearing staged, exaggerated, and showy for the sake of generating a stronger critical (and often political) engagement of the audience2. Theatre, here, is invoked as a metaphor, and not a distinct subject of analysis. While valuable and taken up by countless scholarly works to this day, this application of the term ‘theatricality’ can, at times, be self-contradictory and methodologically unclear, not least because it generalises and trivialises a medium that is vastly heterogeneous. Quite possibly, a correction of this course lies in returning to the medium of theatre itself, in all its different forms and genres.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1993 Motion Pictures | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Film and Television Studies | ||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Theater in motion pictures, Sava, Laura -- History and criticism | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Open Screens | ||||||
| Publisher: | Open Library of the Humanities | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2516-2888 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 31 December 2021 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 4 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| Article Number: | 19 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.16995/os.8017 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Ryzhenko, I., (2021) “Book Review: Laura Sava, Theatre Through the Camera Eye: The Poetics of an Intermedial Encounter, (Edinburgh University Press, 2019)”, Open Screens 4(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/OS.8017 | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 10 January 2022 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 10 January 2022 |
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