Università Roma Tre

Crossing Boundaries between theatre and cinema in North-America
American theatrical operators began experimenting, since Modernism, in a rich exchange and fruitful intersections of performance and media forms, besides adaptations from fictional work and real life. A choice of canonical plays and of contemporary experimental or indie cinematic products will be examined in their intersections with past and present artistic forms. Attention will be drawn to the translation of the different texts.

Teaching material

Texts and Scripts
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
Raymond Carver, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”

Plays
Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
David Mamet, The Winslow Boy

Films
Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides
Woody Allen, Blue Jasmine
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Bibliography
For: Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, see: C.W.E. Bigsby, A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama. Volume 2, Williams, Miller, Albee (Cambridge U P: 1985) [Biblioteca Giorgio Petrocchi]
Philip French, "David Mamet and Film", in Christopher Bigsby, ed., The Cambridge Companion to David Mamet (Cambridge Companions to Literature) (Cambridge UP, 2004), pp.171-193.
Raymond Carver, "Beginners", in: The New Yorker (December 24, 2007 issue)
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/24/beginners
Laurie Champion, "'What We Talk About When We Talk About Love': Carver and Champion"
http://jsse.revues.org/pdf/83
Film Reviews:
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-virgin-suicides-2000
http://www.mymovies.it/film/2014/birdman/
More bibliographic material will be made available during classes.