While we’re on the topic of the ways performance can fundamentally change how we process the meaning of an artistic text:
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Author: Steven Strauss
The Quiet Voiceover
When adapting a book into a movie, voiceover is a reliable fallback.
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Mm Whatcha Say?
The rise of home viewing has led to an increase in the use of open captions, even when the viewer is fluent in the language spoken in the movie.
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Samuel L. Parsons
While we’re on the topic of looking as acting, and acting as looking:
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Crafting the Stage
While we’re on the topic of generational stagecraft:
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Ghosts of Stagecraft PastPresentFuture
The current Broadway production of A Christmas Carol utilizes different generations of stagecraft to bring this centuries-old tale back to life.
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WWTD
Sometimes, a movie adaptation of a play makes you realize new dimensions to a seemingly straightforward moment of stagecraft in the original production.
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Duplicitous Multiplicity
Here’s the thing about symbolic stagecraft, and really all artistic symbolism:
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Unblockable Blocking
What’s the difference between watching a seance on a stage and watching a seance in “real” life?
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Rituals
Stagecraft is a physical ritual of gesture and word.
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