READINGS

STAGING THE SCREEN: THE USE OF FILM AND VIDEO IN THEATRE

BY GREG GIESEKAM

Book dedicated to explore the way contemporary theatre uses media, which is still a relatively new practice for theatre-makers. 

The series charts both a history of the development of modes of performance process and an assessment of their significance in contemporary culture. Each volume is accessibly written and gives a clear and pithy analysis of the historical and cultural development of a mode of practice. as well as offering readers and a sense of the breadth of the fields, the authors have also given key examples and performance illustrations. In different ways each book in the series asks readers to look again at process and practices of theatre-making that seem obvious and self evident, and to examine why and how they have developed as they have, and what their ideological content is. Ultimately the series aims to ask questions about what are the choices and responsibilities facing performance-makers today?

                                                    (Giesekam 2008: 8)

                                                                                            

References:

Giesekam, Greg. (2007) Staging the Screen, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillian