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by Zander Brietzke

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Examines the strengths and weaknesses of both the dramatic and cinematic arts

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.

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  • Title American Drama in the Age of Film
  • Author Zander Brietzke
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 296
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Alabama Press
  • Publication date August 19, 2007
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780817315719 / 0817315713
  • Weight 1.07 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.01 x 6.38 x 0.9 in (22.89 x 16.21 x 2.29 cm)
  • Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
  • Library of Congress subjects Theater - United States - History - 20th, American drama - 20th century - History and
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006102656
  • Dewey Decimal Code 792.097

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2007, Page 280

About the author

Zander Brietzke is Adjunct Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is editor of the Eugene O'Neill Review at Suffolk University, author of The Aesthetics of Failure: Dynamic Structure in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill, and coeditor of Jason Robards Remembered.

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