Università Roma Tre

Crossing Boundaries between theatre and cinema in North-America
Developed later that Modern European Theatre, North-American theatre was modelled, at the beginning, on the prestigious and prosperous Shakespearean tradition. On the other hand, it was also rooted into the tragic and comic tradition derived from ancient Greece, although its themes and aspects were updated to contemporary America (XIX century, and the beginning of the XX century). American theatrical operators experimented with new forms and communication media in modernist times. A rich exchange of intersections with performance and new technologies became available, and different kinds of adaptations were exploited. A choice of plays from the literary canon intersecting with cinematic products will be presented to the class in order to show their links with the past and anticipation of future artistic outcomes.

Texts:
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
Raymond Carver, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”
Fiorello H. LaGuardia: Bioguide (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=l000007)
Drammi teatrali
Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
Susan Sontag, Alice in Bed
David Mamet, The Winslow Boy
Tony Lo Bianco, The Little Flower
Daniel Ives, Venus in Furs
Films
Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Roman Polansky, Venus in Furs.