HomeOn Your Screens! Anglophone Performances in 2D
On Your Screens! Anglophone Performances in 2D
À vos écrans ! La scène anglophone en 2D
RADAC Review
Revue du RADAC
Published on Friday, July 10, 2015
Abstract
Coup de théâtre, la revue du RADAC invite chercheurs et praticiens du théâtre et du cinéma à partager leurs réflexions sur la captation du théâtre anglophone en vue de sa diffusion numérique, ainsi que sur les modalités de sa réception sur un espace en deux dimensions.
Announcement
Argument
Until recently, the material implementation of live performances localized ipso facto their reception. Since the TV broadcastings of Au théâtre ce soir from the Marigny Theater in Paris, the practice of filming shows for digital distribution has expanded, recording techniques have improved, venues have proliferated, and audiences welcome the mediation of the screens that enable them to remotely attend a staged production (TV, DVD, movie theaters, computer screens).
For its next issue, Coup de théâtre, the journal published by research society RADAC (RADAC.fr) invites theater and film scholars and practitioners to share their thoughts and experiences about the recording of Anglophone live shows for digital transmission, as well as the modalities of their reception on a two-dimensional space.
The term “recording” specifically refers to the audiovisual taping of a performance in situ, and not to a “recreation” or fictionalized film version of a play. Among the main providers of Anglophone dramatic works: the National Theater Live (performances filmed in public and broadcasted on a few screens in France), the Royal Shakespeare Company (some productions are available on DVD), Digital Theatre Live (downloads subject to a subscription), and the Metropolitan Opera (broadcasted by Pathé Live in more than 120 theaters in France).
The objective for this journal issue is to explore the ways in which English-language performances are disseminated beyond their linguistic borders, as well as the conceptual and functional impact of their digital broadcastings on Anglophone performance studies.
The following inquiries could serve as a basis for this work:
- In what ways can digital broadcasting contribute, promote, complement and reinterpret Anglophone dramaturgy?
- What is the pedagogical potential of these recordings for Anglophone Theater Studies, as an instrument of knowledge and as object of study?
- What is the status of such recordings: are they archival objects or creations in their own right?
- Since the interpretation of the performance depends on how it is perceived, what new approaches help in understanding the filming and screening procedures?
- Is the recording of staged productions detrimental to the constitutive co-presence of a piece and its viewers during performances, or to the contrary, does the mediation of the camera visually and intellectually enhance the film spectator’s experience?
- Can or should the digital image be edited? Is the inherent rhetoric of film montage (in)compatible with scenic simultaneity?
- To what extent is film aesthetic subservient to its scenic counterpart, and the work of the filmmakers to their dramatic homologues?
- Comments on films availability, as well as theaters policy with regards to their accessibility, can also complement the above-suggested topics.
Submission guidelines
The proposals for articles in French or in English (title and 250 words abstract) along with a short bio-bibliography should be sent to both Sandrine Siméon (Siméon@susqu.edu) and Agathe Torti Alcayaga (agathetorti@yahoo.fr)
by November 29, 2015.
The proposals will be reviewed no later than October 30, 2015 and the articles (maximum length of 5,000 words) will be due by January 30, 2016.
Scientific committee
- Sandrine Siméon, Assistant Professor, Susquehanna University, USA,
- Agathe Torti Alcayaga, Maître de conférences à l’université Paris 13,
- Susan Blattès, Professeur des universités à Grenoble III,
- Christine Kiehl, Maître de conférences à Lyon 2,
- Samuel Cuisinier Delorme, Docteur de l’université Blaise Pascal.
Subjects
Date(s)
- Sunday, November 29, 2015
Attached files
Keywords
- captation, diffuion numérique, théâtre anglophone, réception, rhétorique filmique, création
Contact(s)
- Agathe Torti Alcayaga
courriel : agathetorti [at] yahoo [dot] fr
Information source
- Agathe Torti Alcayaga
courriel : agathetorti [at] yahoo [dot] fr
License
This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
To cite this announcement
« On Your Screens! Anglophone Performances in 2D », Call for papers, Calenda, Published on Friday, July 10, 2015, https://doi.org/10.58079/swd
