| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Samuel Beckett in company ; vol. 6 |
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Samuel Beckett in company ; 6.
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| Contents |
Intro; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction -- Paul Stewart and David Pattie; Sad Rags in Fancy Dress: Early Beckettian Burlesques -- John Pilling; Beckett and the Mass Medium of Radio: Bridging 'High' and 'Low' Culture in All That Fall -- Pim Verhulst; "Do You Really Enjoy the Modern Play?": Beckett on Commercial Television -- Jonathan Bignell; Going Underground: Publicity Campaigns on Beckett's Behalf, 1955-1969 -- Stephen Dilks; Beckett's 'heavy news': Considerations of the American Counterculture and Evergreen Review -- James Baxter |
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Staining the Gutter: Beckett in Art Spiegelman's Maus -- Paul StewartBeckett and Memes: Online Aftertexts -- Ken Alba; "Play it again, Sam!" Samuel Beckett, Popular Video Art and Video Games -- Mark Schreiber; The Aesthetics of Failure in Beckett and Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy -- Anna Douglass; Waiting for GOdoT: Samuel Beckett and HBO's Game of Thrones -- Hannah Simpson; Sociability in Beckett and the Coen Brothers: Idle Talk, 'Pseudocouples' and more -- Selvin Yaltır; God is in the House: Beckett and Cave -- David Pattie; A Country Road, A Tree: An Interview with Jo Baker -- Paul Stewart |
| Summary |
This collection of essays examines how popular cultural forms and media are woven into the fabric of Beckett's works and how Beckett continues to have far-reaching impact on popular culture today in a host of different forms, in film and on television, from comics to meme culture, tourism to marketing |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 01, 2019) |
| Subject |
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 fast |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stewart, Paul, 1971- editor.
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Pattie, David, 1963- editor.
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| ISBN |
9783838271934 |
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3838271939 |
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