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Buster Keaton

Alan Spiegel in Fiction and the Camera Eye (1976)

  • adventitious detail
  • the anatomy of motion
  • depthlessness
  • montage

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—Oxford English Dictionary

“Like Modernist work in other media, Beckett’s screenplays look forward by looking back, acquiring both a seriousness of purpose and a reflexive consciousness of their place in media history that problematised them for their viewers” (Bignell 10).

Head of BBC Radio Drama from 1963 to 1977

“It’s really photographing the mind. It’s the nearest perfect play for television that you could come across, because the television camera photographs the mind better than anything else.”

“MacGowran on Beckett.” Theatre Quarterly 3:2 (20).

“Beckett’s first television play, Eh Joe, was sent to the BBC on his agent’s suggestion, rather than being commissioned” (Bignell 106).

television work seems to stand outside of a history and practice of politically engaged writing within the single play, where politics was understood as the public sphere of employment, government and state institutions” (Bignell, Beckett on Screen: The Television Plays 5).

Martin Esslin

Donald McWhinnie and Theatre 625

Phase

Alternating

Line

is a “Peephole Art”.

—Samuel Beckett

closed-circuit television

1900 June. Century Magazine “Through television and telephone we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face.”

Baird viewing an image produced by one of his early televisors (c. 1925)

Source: Dr G E Winbolt

Deleuzian becoming

cathode ray tube

Bignell 115

To be is to be perceived (or to perceive).

“Esse est percipi (aut percipere).”

––George Berkeley

1965

Film vs Television

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