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# In-depth film vs theater analysis 10 iconic play adaptations Used book, good condition American Drama in the Age of Film

**Brand:** brand: university alabama press
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## Summary

> 🎥 Where Stage Meets Screen: Unlock the Drama You Can’t Miss!

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## Key Features

- • **Collector’s Quality:** Used book in good condition—grab this rare critical gem before it’s gone!
- • **Cutting-Edge Media Critique:** Unpack the evolving relationship between stage and screen with expert insights.
- • **Perfect for Thought Leaders:** Ideal for professionals craving a fresh lens on cultural media debates.
- • **Iconic Dramatic Works Explored:** Dive into adaptations of 10 major American plays that shaped drama and film.
- • **Revitalizes Theater Perception:** Challenges traditional views, spotlighting spectacle and simultaneity as theater’s core.

## Overview

American Drama in the Age of Film is a used book in good condition that critically examines the interplay between theater and cinema through ten major American plays. It challenges traditional views by highlighting how film has transformed drama’s intimacy and how theater’s true power lies in spectacle and simultaneity, making it essential reading for anyone passionate about the evolution of dramatic arts.

## Description

Is theater really dead? Does the theater, as its champions insist, really provide a more intimate experience than film? If so, how have changes in cinematic techniques and technologies altered the relationship between stage and film? What are the inherent limitations of representing three-dimensional spaces in a two-dimensional one, and vice versa? American Drama in the Age of Film examines the strengths and weaknesses of both the dramatic and cinematic arts to confront the standard arguments in the film-versus-theater debate. Using widely known adaptations of ten major plays, Brietzke seeks to highlight the inherent powers of each medium and draw conclusions not just about how they differ, but how they ought to differ as well. He contrasts both stage and film productions of, among other works, David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross, Sam Shepard’s True West, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Margaret Edson’s Wit, Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, and August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson. In reading the dual productions of these works, Brietzke finds that cinema has indeed stolen much of theater’s former thunder, by making drama more intimate, and visceral than most live events. But theater is still vital and matters greatly, Brietzke argues, though for reasons that run counter to many of the virtues traditionally attributed to it as an art form, such as intimacy and spontaneity. Brietzke seeks to revitalize perceptions of theater by challenging those common pieties and offering a new critical paradigm, one that champions spectacle and simultaneity as the most, not least, important elements of drama.

## Features

- Used Book in Good Condition

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