Theater and Film: A Comparative Anthology Edited by Robert Knopf
This comprehensive anthology assembles, for the first time in more than twenty-five years, essays by and interviews with performers, directors, writers, and critics that examine the complex connection between theater and film. The text focuses on the evolution of the historical, cultural, and aesthetic relationship between the two media.
Theater and Film contains: Five parts - historical Influences, Comparisons and Contrasts, Writing, Directing, and Acting Comprehensive bibliography and filmography Contributions by critics such as Andre Bazin, Susan Sontag, and Stanley Kauffmann, and theater and film artists including Harold Pinter, Sam Waterstone, Julie Taymor, and Milosh Forman Essays by major artists whose work and words have shaped the development of theater and film over the past century, such as Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, Ingmar Bergman, and D. W. Griffin. Robert Knopf is Professor and Chair of the Department of Theater and Dance at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of The Theater and Cinema of Buster Keaton (1999) and co-editor of Theater and Avant-Garde (Yale, 2001).