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The Late Work of Sam Shepard de Shannon Blake Skelton

The Late Work of Sam Shepard

Autor Shannon Blake Skelton
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 oct 2017

Prin intermediul volumului The Late Work of Sam Shepard, cititorul descoperă o fațetă a marelui dramaturg american care a rămas mult timp în umbra succeselor sale timpurii din anii '70 și '80. Observăm cum Shannon Blake Skelton reușește să cartografieze perioada de maturitate a lui Shepard, o etapă marcată de o dorință neobosită de a testa limitele teatrului și ale filmului. Suntem de părere că această lucrare oferă o perspectivă senzorială asupra modului în care autorul a filtrat teme precum trauma și memoria prin prisma unei estetici tot mai experimentale, începând cu debutul său regizoral în filmul Far North (1988) și culminând cu ultimele sale creații înainte de 2017.

Structura cărții este organizată tematic, ghidând privitorul prin labirintul carierei târzii a lui Shepard. De la capitolul dedicat autenticității în Don't Come Knocking, până la analiza masculinității în The God of Hell, volumul demonstrează cum Shepard a rămas un observator critic al identității americane. Complementar volumului The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard coordonat de Matthew Roudané, care oferă o privire de ansamblu asupra întregii cariere, studiul lui Skelton se diferențiază prin focalizarea chirurgicală pe deceniile finale, acei „ani autumnali” în care Shepard, asemenea lui Beckett, a rafinat limbajul scenic până la esențe.

În contextul operei lui Shannon Blake Skelton, care a explorat anterior figuri emblematice ale cinematografiei în Wes Craven, acest volum confirmă interesul autorului pentru creatorii care redefinesc genurile. The Late Work of Sam Shepard nu este doar o analiză de text, ci o imersiune în procesul creativ al unui artist care a excelat simultan ca actor, regizor și scriitor, oferind o resursă esențială pentru înțelegerea moștenirii lăsate de cel considerat unul dintre cei mai influenți scriitori ai generației sale.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350035607
ISBN-10: 1350035602
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este indispensabilă studenților și cercetătorilor din domeniul artelor spectacolului care doresc să înțeleagă evoluția lui Sam Shepard dincolo de piesele sale clasice. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă nuanțată asupra modului în care un artist consacrat își poate reinventa limbajul la maturitate. Este o recomandare fermă pentru cei pasionați de intersecția dintre teatru, film și proză, oferind analize detaliate ale unor lucrări mai puțin explorate de critica literară.

Descriere

Hailed by critics during the 1980s as the decade's 'Great American Playwright', Sam Shepard continued to produce work in a wide array of media including short prose, films, plays, performances and screenplays until his death in 2017. Like Samuel Beckett and Tennessee Williams in their autumnal years, Shepard relentlessly pressed the potentialities and possibilities of theatre. This is the first volume to consider Shepard's later work and career in detail and ranges across his work produced since the late 1980s.

Shepard's motion picture directorial debut Far North (1988) served as the beginning of a new cycle of work. He returned to the stage with the politically engaged States of Shock (1991) which resembled neither his earlier plays nor his family cycle. With both Far North and States of Shock, Shepard signaled a transition into a phase in which he would experiment in form, subject and media for the next two decades. Skelton's comprehensive study includes consideration of his work in films such as Hamlet (2000), Black Hawk Down (2001), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) and Brothers (2009); issues of authenticity in the film and screenplay Don't Come Knocking (2005) and the play Kicking a Dead Horse (2007); of memory and trauma in Simpatico, The Late Henry Moss and When the World was Green, and of masculine and conservative narratives in States of Shock and The God of Hell.

Lauded by critics in his lifetime and since his death in July 2017 as 'one of the most important and influential writers of his generation' (NY Times), Shepard 'excelled as an actor, screenwriter, playwright and director' (Guardian); this is a timely and important assessment of his work spanning the last three decades of his life.

Cuprins

Introduction
Chapter 1: "How Many Lives . . . Within This One?": The Performances of Sam Shepard
Chapter 2: "What's Beyond Authentic?": Authenticity and Artistry in Don't Come Knocking and Kicking a Dead Horse
Chapter 3: "One of Us Has Forgotten": Memory and Trauma in Simpatico, The Late Henry Moss and When the World was Green
Chapter 4: "I Miss the Cold War So Much": Interrogating Masculine and Conservative Narratives in States of Shock and The God of Hell
Chapter 5: "Surrounded by My Primitive Captors": Hybridity and Hegemony in Silent Tongue and Eyes for Consuela
Chapter 6: "Where's All the Men?": Men, Women and Homosociality in the Late Style of Sam Shepard
Conclusion
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

The best chapter charts all the echoes of Shepard's biography, media persona and actual writings in the variety of film and television roles he has played since his Oscar-nominated turn as Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff ... [Skelton] is also good on Shepard's cultural status.
Shannon Skelton has produced an excellent, insightful, and unique study of the later plays of Sam Shepard. This is an intelligent book, one that is essential for anyone interested in Sam Shepard and the contemporary stage.
Skelton's The Late Work of Sam Shepard addresses a lacuna in Shepard scholarship. Most of the critical attention given to Shepard's work centers on his early productions, and the playwright's waning popularity has certainly contributed to this lack of attention. Skelton (Kansas State Univ.) examines nine works written since 1988, looking at how Shepard's later style reveals, as she writes in the introduction, "a maturing of the Shepard persona" and a willingness to explore "different media, subjects, and aesthetics and ... to pose solutions to dilemmas previously considered yet never resolved." Skelton examines both the intertextual and the transmedial ("a mode of storytelling that transcends one medium and develops on various platforms") qualities of these works. A key feature of the later works is the ability of characters to resolve issues and concerns raised in earlier works: as an example, Skelton compares The Late Henry Moss (2002) with True West (1980), looking at how the later work solves the issues of personal conflict left unresolved in the earlier play. Offering a range of critical approaches and exhibiting scholarly sophistication, this is an intelligent, overdue contribution to the literature on Shepard. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.