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Stage Production (stage + production)
Selected Abstracts'Du Tag, wann wirst du sein...': Quotation, Emancipation and Dissonance in Straub/Huillet's Der Bräutigam, die Komödiantin und der ZuhälterGERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS, Issue 3 2000Martin Brady Taking as its starting point the radical potential ascribed to cinematic montage by Walter Benjamin, ans his concept of it's subversive 'Chockwirking', this article focuses on the thematic and structural use of dissonance, quotation and translation in Jean-Marie Straub's and Danièle Huillet's Der Bräutigam, dir Komösiantin und der Zuhälter(1968, 23 mins) in order to identify its utopian aspects. Described by Straub as their most aleatory and political work, it is an elliptical montage of literary, cinematic and musical quotations, a 'document of documents', or 'document-fiction', which evolved out of their stage production of Ferdinand Bruckner's Krankheit der Jugend in Fassbinder's Munich 'action-theater'. Ser agasinst the back-drop of the Paris revolts of 1968, the film presents models of emancipatory political action. Der Bräutigam is also a cinematic manifesto, a compressed documentary essay on cinema itself, distilling the debris of film history into a diamectical sequence of cinematic quotations which itself lays claim to being the apotheosis of that history. The article examines the ways in which the film transforms ots literary, musical, and cinematic source material into 'Jetztzeit;, making Der Bräutigama commentary on the political potential of 'Literaturverfilmung' or '-dokumentierung' to liberate and actualisr pre-existing texts in the here and now. [source] Sophia Lee and the Genre SérieuxJOURNAL FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES, Issue 1 2010PETER HYNES Abstract This article measures the influence of Denis Diderot's theory of the genre sérieux on English drama of the later eighteenth century, using Sophia Lee's The Chapter of Accidents as its principal test case. It concludes that, while Lee borrowed extensively for plot devices and character types, she did not adopt many of the innovations that in Diderot's view constituted the heart of his programme of reform. A number of reasons for this neglect are suggested, foremost among them the practical demands of English stage production in the 1780s. [source] Hatching fraction and timing of resting stage production in seasonal environments: effects of density dependence and uncertain season lengthJOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, Issue 3 2001M. Spencer Many organisms survive unfavourable seasons as resting stages, some of which hatch each favourable season. Hatching fraction and timing of resting stage production are important life history variables. We model life cycles of freshwater invertebrates in temporary pools, with various combinations of uncertain season length and density-dependent fecundity. In deterministic density-independent conditions, resting stage production begins suddenly. With uncertain season length and density independence, resting stage production begins earlier and gradually. A high energetic cost of resting stages favours later resting stage production and a lower hatching fraction. Deterministic environments with density dependence allow sets of coexisting strategies, dominated by pairs, each switching suddenly to resting stage production on a different date, usually earlier than without density dependence. Uncertain season length and density dependence allow a single evolutionarily stable strategy, around which we observe many mixed strategies with negatively associated yield (resting stages per initial active stage) and optimal hatching fraction. [source] | ||||||||||