Theater after Film

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Av Martin Harries, Professor Martin Harries

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A study of the impact of film and mass culture on drama after World War II.In Theater after Film, Martin Harries argues that after 1945, as cinema became omnipresent in popular culture, theater had to respond to cinema’s hegemony. Theater couldn’t break that hegemony, but it could provide a zone of contestation. Theater made film’s domination of the cultural field visible through hyperbole, refusal, and other strategies, thereby unsettling its power. Postwar theatrical experiment, Harries shows, often channeled and represented film’s mass cultural force, while knowing that it could never possess that force. Throughout the book, Harries brings critical theory into contact with theories of performance. Although Theater after Film treats the theatrical work of many figures, its central focus falls on Tennessee Williams, Samuel Beckett, and Adrienne Kennedy. Discussions of these dramatists consider their ways of addressing spectators, the politics of race between film and theater, and the place of the theatrical apparatus. Readings of these central figures in twentieth-century theater exemplify the book’s historical engagement with the media surround that drama confronted. This confrontation, Harries shows, was central to the development of some of the most continually compelling postwar drama.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-05-23
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt567 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226838700

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1. Preface2. Incommunication3. Theater/Media4. Demolition of a Theater (1901)5. Residual Becomes Emergent6. Medium/Media/Mediation in Reverse7. Theater/Film8. Apparatus9. Williams, Beckett, Kennedy10. Walter Benjamin’s Work of Art Essay11. Benjamin’s Medium12. Modernism: Shaw, Lorca, Brecht13. Participation in Postwar Theater14. Artaud’s Voice against Radio15. Publics16. Handke’s Offending the AudienceTennessee Williams17. Williams’s Material18. Learning Sexual Violence with Tennessee Williams, or Streetcar in Pictures19. Lead Belly’s Guitar and Williams’s CounterpublicsSamuel Beckett20. Beckett, Cinema, Politics21. Film and Its Audiences22. Catastrophe: Fixing the Audience23. Endgame, Postwar Mass Culture, and Forms of Address24. Beckett, the Proscenium, Media25. Product PlacementAdrienne Kennedy26. Theater after Hollywood27. A Movie Star in 197628. The Author as Produced: Hollywood/Jim Crow29. Diary of Lights30. Afterword/After TheaterAcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndex

“An intellectually thrilling account of postwar theater’s aesthetic enmeshment in—and contestation of—mass media. Harries’s writing is unparalleled in its combination of rigorous historicism, searching theoretical inquiry, and brilliant close reading. In a series of illuminating essays, Harries shows how the very particularities that have consigned theater artists to distinct canons actually form a ‘dialectical sequence’ of profound investigations into modern spectatorship. Anyone who cares about what stage plays can be in a society dominated by other media ought to read Theater after Film.”