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Author:   Jonathan Bignell ,  Pim Verhulst ,  Anna McMullan
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
ISBN:  

9781526153791

ISBN 10:   1526153793
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   21 February 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction – Pim Verhulst, Anna McMullan and Jonathan Bignell 1 Beckett’s ‘adaphatroce’ revisited: toward a poetics of adaptation – Pim Verhulst 2 Adaptation and convergence: Beckett on Film – Jonathan Bignell 3 ‘Imprecations from the Brighton Road to Foxrock Station’: the effect of place on Mouth on Fire’s stagings of All That Fall – Feargal Whelan 4 Engines of reverence? Beckett, festivals and adaptation – Trish McTighe and Kurt Taroff 5 Passing by, gazing upon: gendered agency in adaptations of Come and Go and Happy Days – Katherine Weiss 6 ‘Last state last version’: adaptation and performance in Gare St Lazare Ireland’s How It Is – Dúnlaith Bird 7 Intermedial embodiments: Company SJ’s staging of Beckett’s Company – Anna McMullan 8 Beckett, neurodiversity and the prosthetic: the posthuman turn in contemporary art – Derval Tubridy 9 Beckett and new media adaptation: from the literary corpus to the transmedia archive – David Houston Jones 10 Opera as adaptation: György Kurtág’s Samuel Beckett: Fin de partie, scènes et monologues – Olga Beloborodova 11 Questioning norms in three Beckettian choreographic projections: Maguy Marin, Dominique Dupuy, Joanna Czajkowska – Evelyne Clavier 12 ‘I’ll give you just enough to keep you from dying’: power dynamics disclosed in Tania Bruguera’s Endgame – Luz María Sánchez Cardona 13 Godot noir: Beckett in black and whiteface – S. E. Gontarski 14 Deferred dreams: waiting for freedom and equality in Nwandu and Beckett – Graley Herren 15 ‘How can you photograph words?’: expanding the Godot universe from adaptation to transmedia storytelling – Luciana Tamas and Eckart Voigts 16 The figure of Beckett in four contemporary novels– Paul Stewart Index -- .

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Jonathan Bignell is Professor of Television and Film at the University of Reading. Anna McMullan is Professor Emerita in Theatre at the University of Reading. Pim Verhulst is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford and a Teaching Assistant at the University of Antwerp.

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