The Field of Drama: How the Signs of Drama Create Meaning on Stage and Screen

Author - Martin Esslin ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Hardcover Book item from Methuen was reviewed on 30-Mar-2009.

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1) Hardcover Book The Field of Drama: How the Signs of Drama Create Meaning on Stage and Screen by Methuen. I am writing my MA thesis on the connection between the visual arts and theatre and found Esslin to be highly engaging. I was very impressed with his approachability. There was never a moment when I felt like I didn´t understand what he was talking about. Time after time, Esslin provides an idea and then supplies numerous examples to give evidence to why he thinks that way. I strongly recommend this book for anyone studying drama and how language, movement, lighting, and even silence develop meaning on the stage.¤

2) Hardcover Book The Field of Drama: How the Signs of Drama Create Meaning on Stage and Screen by Methuen. A unique book of criticism that brings both theatre and film studies within a single theoretical framework Martin Esslin is the author of seminal critical studies such as The Theatre of the Absurd and Brecht: A Choice of Evils. Covering artists as diverse as Duchamp and Brecht, Busby Berkely and Congreve, Pinter and WC Fields, Esslin´s approach is fresh and genuinely inquisitive, examining various prepared positions and testing the jargon. Taking each element of drama - the actor, the setting, the text, the music - and making provocative cross-references to stage and screen, Esslin offers a carefully argued "system" of his own, much fuller and more sensitive than anything that has gone before.¤

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