The Field of Drama
How the Signs of Drama Create Meaning on Stage and Screen
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4551216 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sam Abel, Martin Esslin |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 437 |
| Publication date | 1988-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theatre Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-2882 • E-ISSN: 1086-332X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3208347 |
| OpenAlex | W2077904691 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
A unique book of criticism that brings both theatre and film studies within a single theoretical framework Martin Esslin is the author of seminal critical studies such as The Theatre of the Absurd and Brecht: A Choice of Evils. Covering artists as diverse as Duchamp and Brecht, Busby Berkely and Congreve, Pinter and WC Fields, Esslin's approach is fresh and genuinely inquisitive, examining various prepared positions and testing the jargon. Taking each element of drama - the actor, the setting, the text, the music - and making provocative cross-references to stage and screen, Esslin offers a carefully argued system of his own, much fuller and more sensitive than anything that has gone before
Aesthetics · Art · Drama · Field (mathematics · Literature · Meaning (existential · Psychotherapist · Stage (stratigraphy · Mathematics · Psychology · Theatre and Performance Studies · Geology
Romeo and Juliet's Rewriting in the Walt Disney Animated Movie Pocahontas
Theatre for a young audience
Algorithms and Interoperability between Drama and Artificial Intelligence
Shakespearean and Brechtian Drama and Theatre
Modern Character
Displaying the Magician's Art
Performative symbols and their relative non-arbitrariness
Spanish Theatre Studies
Theatrical competence, communication and ‘Cargo’ among young audiences
Playwriting pedagogy and the myth of intrinsic creativity
Engaging Aliterate Students
Prefabricated orality in theatre translations
Pretending to know
Staging national identities in contemporary Estonian theatre and film
Integrating words, images, and text in BMGIM
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,65 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2023 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |