[ebooks] Wigs and Make-up for Theatre; TV and Film by Patricia Baker in Arts-Photography

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This book considers the hundred years of re-writes of Anton Chekhovrsquo;s work; presenting a wide geographical landscape of Chekhovian influences in drama. The volume examines the elusive quality of Chekhovrsquo;s dramatic universe as an intricate mechanism; an engine in which his enigmatic characters exist as the dramatic and psychological ciphers we have been de-coding for a century; and continue to do so. Examining the practice and the theory of dramatic adaptation both as intermedial transformation (from page to stage) and as intramedial mutation; from page to page; the book presents adaptation as the emerging genre of drama; theatre; and film. This trend marks the performative and social practices of the new millennium; highlighting our epochrsquo;s need to engage with the history of dramatic forms and their evolution. The collection demonstrates that adaptation as the practice of transformation and as a re-thinking of habitual dramatic norms and genre definitions leads to the rejuvenation of existing dramatic and performative standards; pioneering the creation of new traditions and expectations. As the major mode of the storytelling imagination; adaptation can build upon and drive the audiencersquo;s horizons of expectations in theatre aesthetics. Hence; this volume investigates the original and transformative knowledge that the story of Chekhovrsquo;s drama in mutations offers to scholars of drama and performance; to students of modern literatures and cultures; and to theatre practitioners worldwide.