After tracing the history of current approaches back to early practitioners such as Méliès, Painlévé and Piscator, Staging the Screen explores in detail recent productions by Svoboda, the Wooster Group, Forkbeard Fantasy, Forced Entertainment, Station House Opera, and Lepage. Charts the impact of developing technologies and addresses critical issues raised by multi-media and intermedia work.
A live theatre TV adaptation
Looking at specific instances of live performance such as theatre, rock music, sport, and courtroom testimony, Liveness offers penetrating insights into media culture, suggesting that media technology has encroached on live events to the point where many are hardly live at all.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
8 artists participate in a cross-media project about television