Adapting Performance Between Stage and Screen

by Victoria Lowe

Overview

An introduction to adaptations between theatre and film, considering these as distinct from literary adaptation. Places emphasis on performance and event, including the recent growth of digital theatre with phenomena such as NT Live. Case studies show how adaptations can't be divorced from the historical and cultural moment in which they are produced.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789387506
Publisher:	Intellect, Limited
Publication date:	02/24/2023
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Victoria Lowe is a lecturer in drama and screen studies at the University of Manchester. Her research interests include stage/screen adaptation, theatricality in the cinema, intermediality, screen acting, and stardom and the voice in cinema.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part One: Practices

Chapter 1: Stage to Screen Adaptation and Performance/Production: Space, Design, Acting, Sound

Chapter 2: Screen to Stage Adaptation: Theatre as Medium/Hyper-Medium

Chapter 3: Stage to Screen Adaptation and the Performance Event: Live Broadcast as Adaptation

Part Two: Histories

Chapter 4: The Introduction of Sound and ‘Canned’ Theatre

Chapter 5: The British New Wave on Stage and Screen

Chapter 6: Staging ‘British Cinema’

Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

"Building productively on previous scholarship while also taking adaptation studies in fruitful new directions, Adapting Performance between Stage and Screen offers an accessible and incisive consideration of its topic. Lowe confidently navigates the many permutations of the relationship between cinema and theatre and meticulously explores how this has played out in the particularly intertwined British variation on the theme. Very worthwhile reading for anyone interested in British film, British theatre and their deep interconnectivity, this is a performance that definitely deserves its own round of applause."
 

Journal of British Cinema and Television - Melanie Williams