scholarly journals TEATRALIDAD Y MODOS DE REPRESENTACIÓN EN EL MELODRAMA DE RAINER W. FASSBINDER: DE SIRK A ARTAUD

Author(s):  
Miguel OLEA ROMACHO

El presente artículo explora el concepto de teatralidad cinematográfica a partir de un análisis de la estética del melodrama y el estudio formal de la obra de uno de los grandes renovadores del género, el director alemán Rainer W. Fassbinder. En concreto, toma como referencia la película Todos nos llamamos Ali (1974) para examinar su recepción del melodrama clásico o sirkiano, demostrando que la filiación teatral del género no se debe simplemente al perfeccionamiento de los valores plásticos de la puesta en escena sino también a la importancia del cuerpo del actor o actriz como entidad de sentido privilegiada, y en el caso de Fassbinder, a la influencia combinada de Brecht y Artaud. El análisis está precedido por una valoración de la idea de teatralidad desde la teoría intermedial, así como de la filiación del melodrama como género con el medio escénico. Abstract: This article deals with the concept of theatricality in film by studying the aesthetics of melodrama and discussing the work of one of the genre’s most prominent renovators, German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Particularly, it centers on the film Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) in order to explore its reception of classic or sirkian melodrama, proving that the theatrical nature of the genre is not merely due to the refinement of the plastic values of mise-en-scène and placing, but also to the importance of the performer’s body as a privileged source of meaning, and, in Fassbinder’s works, to the combined influence of Brecht’s and Artaud’s. Our analysis is introduced by a critical examination of the idea of theatricality from the perspective of Intermedial Theory and an exploration of the bonds between performing stage and melodrama as a genre.

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-142
Author(s):  
Mireia Aragay ◽  
Clara Escoda

In this article Mireia Aragay and Clara Escoda examine James Macdonald's Royal Court Theatre production of Martin Crimp's triptych Fewer Emergencies (2005) in the wake of recent critical assessments of Crimp's work in relation to Hans-Thies Lehmann's postdramatic paradigm. By focusing on light design, the authors suggest that Macdonald's staging of the play productively enhanced the tension inherent in Crimp's text between dramatic and postdramatic elements. Light was conceived in postdramatic terms as a major component of the mise-en-scène, synaesthetically interacting with the linguistic material in a way that necessitated the spectators’ active processing of all onstage signs and, ultimately, their critical examination of their own ethical and political positioning with respect to the late-capitalist social and cultural order. Mireia Aragay is a Senior Lecturer in English drama and theatre at the University of Barcelona. She is co-editor of British Theatre of the 1990s: Interviews with Directors, Playwrights, Critics, and Academics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). Clara Escoda has recently completed a PhD thesis on Martin Crimp's theatre at the University of Barcelona, where she lectures in English literature.


2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Navin Viswanathan ◽  
James S. Magnuson ◽  
Carol A. Fowler

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
JASWINDER KAUR ◽  
SATYA NARAIN

The floristic exploration and critical examination of specimens collected of family Convolvulaceae from Upper Gangetic Plains of India, resulted in addition of 2 new records for the flora viz. Ipomoea littoralis and Ipomoea capitellata var. multilobata. Detailed description, phenology, ecology, distribution, locality, field number, type specimens examined, illustrations and other relevant notes are provided.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-45
Author(s):  
Sarah J. Adams

Despite their peripheral position in the Atlantic slave trade, authors of the late eighteenth-century German states composed a number of dramas that addressed imperialism and slavery. As Sigrid G. Köhler has argued (2018), these authors aimed to exert political leverage by grounding their plays in the international abolitionist debate. This article explores how a body of intellectual texts resonated in August von Kotzebue's bourgeois melodrama Die Negersklaven (1796). In a sentimental preface, he mentions diverse philosophical, historical and political sources that contributed to the dramatic plot and guaranteed his veracity. Looking specifically at the famous Histoire des deux Indes (1770) by Denis Diderot and Guillaume-Thomas F. Raynal, I will examine the ways in which Kotzebue adapted highbrow abolitionist discourses to the stage in order to convery an anti-slavery ideology to the white European middle classes. Kotzebue seems to ground abolitionism in the bourgeois realm by moulding political texts into specific generic templates such as an elaborate mise-en-scène, the separation and reunion of lost lovers, a fraternal conflict, and the representation of suffering victims and a compassionate white hero.


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