Theatre to Cinema
Stage Pictorialism and the Early Feature Film
Ben Brewster and Lea Jacobs
Price: £36.00 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-815950-6
Publication date: 15 January 1998
256 pages, 308 halftones & line illus., 246x189 mm
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| Reviews |
| - 'a revealing approach for actors, on stage and in the movies.' - Bibliographic Selection, International Theatre Informatin No 60 1999
- 'Well-researched and illustrated.' - J. Belton, CHOICE
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| Description | | - A landmark study of the origins of film
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This is the first book-length study of the relations between early cinema and nineteenth-century theatre for nearly fifty years. Incorporating the results of recent reconsiderations of early cinema, Theatre to Cinema
seeks to characterize what featrues of nineteenth-century theatre early film-makers borrowed or adapted, and the ways specific characteristics of cinema inflected these
borrowings. Rather than simply copying the theatre en bloc, the cinema seized on those aspects of spectacular staging that can be called `pictorial', and found ways of adapting cinematic techniques to pictorial ends. The book traces this influence in the adaptation and transformation of the theatrical tableau, acting styles and staging techniques, examining such films as Caserini's I^Ma l'amor
mio non muore, Tournier's Alias Jimmy Valentine
and The Whip
, Sjostrom's Ingmarssonerma
, and various adaptations of Uncle Tom's Cabin
. While previous accounts of the relationship between cinema and theatre have tended to assume that early film-makers had to break away from the stage in order to establish a specific aesthetic for the new medium, the book argues that the cinema
turned to the pictorial tradition of the theatre of the 1910s to establish a model for feature-film making. ^
Theatre to Cinema
is a seminal work which will profoundly alter our understanding of early cinema.
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Readership: Scholars in the field of film history, theatre history, and art history, and the film archival community.
| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Ben Brewster, Assistant Director, Center for Film and Theater Research and
Lea Jacobs, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Arts, both at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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