Necessary Theatre: Luis Valdez The under discussion video is a debatable interview of Luis Valdez about his opinions regarding theater in general and specific to Chicano theatre. The video was initially published on the social connecting site YouTube on the 19th of July 2008. Luis Valdez is a well-known and acclaimed writer and filmmaker whose ground breaking “Zoot Suit” and Teatro Campesino escorted the new era of socially-conscious Latino Theater. With the help of his story telling, Valdez defined
I. Introduction Performing arts are art forms that artists convey their artistic expressions with their voice and/or the movements of their bodies to the live audience. Performing arts may include music, dance, theatre, musical theatre, opera, magic, etc. Among these performing arts genres, music has a very long history; it is an art form that uses sound as the medium. Every performing art has a characteristic of one-time, meaning that performing arts cannot be existed in the form of physical substance
apart from Eve? Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s award-winning film ‘All About Eve’ is a story of fame, ambition, and all that it entails. Headlining it is Bette Davis’ Margo Channing, an ageing actress whose star shines brightest in the theatre. Margo is a woman who is not only revered by her audiences, but people in and of the theatre itself – a trait that Eve, played by Anne Baxter, is most envious of. Eve tries to usurp Margo’s place in the theatre by conniving her way through Broadway hierarchy and politics
An interview between Ruth Maxey (2002) and Tom Perrotta, published in Literature Film Quarterly, explored the challenges between writing a novel and a screenplay and the reasons for differences between the two. Perrotta spoke about being a part of the screen adaptations of three of his novels, Little Children, Election, and The Abstinence Teacher. Perrotta mentioned that sometimes what looks good on the page does not always translate as beautifully onscreen, which causes adjustments to be made. Perrotta
Maisy The Taming of The Shrew was written in 1592 by William Shakespeare and exists today as a result of the timeless tale and also the depiction of the world in the Sixteenth Century. In recent years Gil Junger directed a film, Ten Things I Hate About You, which took the plot elements of The Taming, and appropriated them to suit a Twenty First Century audience. The two versions vary greatly, due to the values held by their respective composers, and the cultural and historical aspects which influenced
competitor for audiences was theatre, as cinema was theatre's two-dimensional counterpart. In Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 film Rear Window, he attempts to blur the distinction between cinema and theatre. Obviously the largest difference is that Rear Window is a film however Hitchcock toys with the idea of having a play within the film and having his main character take on the roll of an audience member. By doing so Hitchcock has opened up various ways of narrating the film, via different characters and
started off with a big feast. “In one way it can be seen as yet another term for social centrifugal force which opposes the centralising imposition of the monologic world.” (Morris, 1994, p.20). It was a temporary suspension for the communication between the lower and upper class would in everyday life would otherwise be impossible if not for the
Christopher Marlowe Anonymous is a film presenting the 17th century Earl of Oxford as the true author of William Shakespeare’s plays. There are many theories that doubt the works of Shakespeare to be legitimate. It is hard to believe that a man with very limited education was able to produce plays and poems that are attributed to Shakespeare. Christopher Marlowe was an English poet and play writer of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe was born in 1564, the same year as Shakespeare and was brought up in
While the 1981 film, An American Werewolf in London, is considered by many to be a classic horror film, it is also a film that has a misogynistic implicit meaning. The film is somewhat of a coming of age story. The two main characters, shortly after graduating, arrive in England to travel explore both foreign lands and foreign women. The sexual symbolism throughout the film implies that the female body is a dangerous thing. Men’s lustful desires can cause a total transformation from something human
growing epidemic: immigration, abandonment, and lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender (LGBT) rights. Kirsten Kelly lived in Chicago for six years before moving to New York City to follow her dream of film and theatre directing. Kelly has been named a Helen Hayes-nominated Best Director title two times and her theatre productions have been displayed nationally (75th Anniversary: Alumni Profiles). Anne de Mare is a director and an award-winning playwright whose original plays have been displayed nationally