'Execrations on Another Plane': Film Theory in Close Up and Beckett's Late Prose
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F18%3A10376481" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/18:10376481 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
—
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
—
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
'Execrations on Another Plane': Film Theory in Close Up and Beckett's Late Prose
Original language description
Beckett's correspondence of the 1930s reveals his awareness of the artistic possibilities offered by film, and a particular interest in the optical manipulation of the image achieved both in the camera and at the editing bench. This interest grew stronger as his critical taste developed by immersive reading in film theory in 1936, the year he wrote an application to study with Sergei Eisenstein in Moscow. His extensive theoretical knowledge came from the pages of the modernist film magazine Close Up (1927-1933), where the first English translations of Eisenstein's essays appeared, and which epitomised a significant cultural meeting point of literature and cinema. Taking Eisenstein's writing on film published in Close Up and the magazine's overall cultural project as points of departure, this paper explores up-close the traces of early cinematic forms and editing theories in Beckett's late text, Ill Seen Ill Said (1981)
Czech name
—
Czech description
—
Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
—
OECD FORD branch
60205 - Literary theory
Result continuities
Project
—
Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Beckett and Modernism
ISBN
978-3-319-70373-2
Number of pages of the result
13
Pages from-to
209-221
Number of pages of the book
295
Publisher name
Palgrave Macmillan
Place of publication
London
UT code for WoS chapter
—