Bignell / Unknown / Verhulst Beckett's afterlives

Adaptation, remediation, appropriation
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5380-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Beckett’s afterlives is the first book-length study dedicated to posthumous adaptations of Beckett’s oeuvre. This collection analyses the remarkable diversity of creative engagements across different media and cultural contexts that have ensured the survival and continuing relevance of Beckett’s work in a constantly changing world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Bignell, Jonathan

Verhulst, Pim

McMullan, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Radio
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction – Pim Verhulst, Anna McMullan and Jonathan Bignell
1 Beckett’s ‘adaphatroce’ revisited: toward a poetics of adaptation – Pim Verhulst
2 Adaptation and convergence: Beckett on Film – Jonathan Bignell
3 ‘Imprecations from the Brighton Road to Foxrock Station’: the effect of place on Mouth on Fire’s stagings of All That Fall – Feargal Whelan
4 Engines of reverence? Beckett, festivals and adaptation – Trish McTighe and Kurt Taroff
5 Passing by, gazing upon: gendered agency in adaptations of Come and Go and Happy Days – Katherine Weiss
6 ‘Last state last version’: adaptation and performance in Gare St Lazare Ireland’s How It Is – Dúnlaith Bird
7 Intermedial embodiments: Company SJ’s staging of Beckett’s Company – Anna McMullan
8 Beckett, neurodiversity and the prosthetic: the posthuman turn in contemporary art – Derval Tubridy
9 Beckett and new media adaptation: from the literary corpus to the transmedia archive – David Houston Jones
10 Opera as adaptation: György Kurtág’s Samuel Beckett: Fin de partie, scènes et monologues – Olga Beloborodova
11 Questioning norms in three Beckettian choreographic projections: Maguy Marin, Dominique Dupuy, Joanna Czajkowska – Evelyne Clavier
12 ‘I’ll give you just enough to keep you from dying’: power dynamics disclosed in Tania Bruguera’s Endgame – Luz María Sánchez Cardona
13 Godot noir: Beckett in black and whiteface – S. E. Gontarski
14 Deferred dreams: waiting for freedom and equality in Nwandu and Beckett – Graley Herren
15 ‘How can you photograph words?’: expanding the Godot universe from adaptation to transmedia storytelling – Luciana Tamas and Eckart Voigts
16 The figure of Beckett in four contemporary novels– Paul Stewart
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bignell Jonathan:
Jonathan Bignell is Reader in Television and Film at the University of Reading, and Director of the Centre for Television Drama StudiesJonathan Bignell is Professor of Television and Film at the University of Reading

Anna McMullan is Professor Emerita in Theatre at the University of Reading

Pim Verhulst is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford and a Teaching Assistant at the University of Antwerp