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.
Review:
“Brietzke compares staged plays to their film and/or television adaptations to prove the intrinsic value of live drama. The book’s value is in the play analyses; the film-theater juxtaposition often feels merely like an excuse for them. Recommended.”
—CHOICE
“In his study of drama and film, Brietzke goes back to first principles, reconsidering the very basis for comparing the ‘liveness’ of theater with the mediatized reality of film and television. His discussion of the theory is fresh and provocative. A great deal of the book’s contribution is its original, thoroughly knowledgeable readings of plays and adaptations ranging from O’Neill, Hellman, and Williams to Wilson, Mamet, and Kushner. Brietzke’s recognition of the way drama is taught and thought about by most of today’s university teachers and students, with direct reference to the productions that are available on VHS and DVD, informs every chapter.”
—Brenda Murphy, author of The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity
“In this elegant and long-overdue book, drama and film emerge not as competitors per se but as collaborators who variously borrow and profit from their intertwined histories. At the same time, Zander Brietzke delivers a passionate defense of the theater, a reminder that even, and especially in an age of media, theater remains the most live and lively art.”
—Martin Puchner, author of Stage Fright: Modernism Anti-Theatricality, and Drama
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