Roger Blin: Collaborations and Methodologies: 6 (Stage and Screen Studies) - Softcover

Batty, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820475084 ISBN 13: 9780820475080

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

Roger Blin's career in the Arts was woven inextricabily into the fabric of the Twentieth-Century French Avant-Garde. First appearing in the films of Abel Gance, Marcel Carne and Jean Cocteau, his acting career led him to a close friendship and association with Antonin Artaud, for whom he performed the function of assistant director. He championed Samuel Beckett's En attendant Godot, otherwise rejected unanimously by the French theatrical establishment, was Jean Genet's director of choice and was long associated with artists and practitioners as diverse as Arthur Adamov, Jean-Louis Barrault and Jacques Prevert. Marxist in outlook, Blin also sought to apply rigorous humanist principles to his art and delighted in the opportunities he enjoyed to disrupt and upturn the attitudes and complacencies of certain of his audiences. This book surveys all aspects of Blin's artistic output to consider and clarify his motivations, his ambitions and his aesthetic preferences. In doing so, the author hopes to offer perspectives on the methodologies that Blin employed and define the influence his work and his legacy has exerted on the French and World stage.

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About the Author

Mark Batty is Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. He has published on the writings of Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett, and has interests in issues of translation for the stage, author/director relationships and the status of the text in performance.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0820475084
• ISBN 13: 9780820475080
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 274
• Editor: Richards Kenneth