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(Re)mediating the modernist novel: Katie Mitchell's live cinema work
British director Katie Mitchell’s intermedial experimentation in ‘Live Cinema’ forces film, literature and performance into collision. This chapter examines a body of work inaugurated by Mitchell’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel The Waves (National Theatre, 2006). It investigates the formative influence of the modernist novel on the Live Cinema genre, arguing that intermedial experimentation offers contemporary performance makers ways of exploring subjectivity akin to cross-media experiments in modernist literature. It also documents the influence of The Wooster Group on Mitchell’s thinking as she began to adapt Woolf’s writing for the stage. The chapter culminates in a reading of Mitchell’s free adaptation of Strindberg’s Miss Julie (Berlin Schaubühne, 2009), reconfigured from the point of view of the servant Kristin and organised as an exploration of ‘consciousness’.
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Palgrave MacmillanExternal DOI
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97-119Pages
357.0Book title
Contemporary approaches to adaptationPlace of publication
BasingstokeISBN
9781137597823Department affiliated with
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Kara ReillyLegacy Posted Date
2016-07-12Usage metrics
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