Intermediality and Epic Theatre From Brecht’s ThreePenny Opera: Theatre and Cinema
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https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2013v25p18Keywords:
Bertolt Brecht, Epic theatre, Intermediality, Theatre and societyAbstract
The play The Threepenny Opera, by Brecht and Weill, premiered succesfully in 1928. Its adaptation to the cinema at first maintened its authors as the responsible for the screenplay, but they were later excluded from the process because of their attempt to catch up with critical issues within the play, and Pabst´movie premiered in 1931. In this paper we discuss some aspects of the text and its cinema adaptation regarding the issue of intermediality. Categories as music, text and plot in epic theatre impose the intermediality as their tenet for their functioning, aiming at a rupture with the normatization of traditional forms to develop a materialistic critique of capitalistic society.References
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