Blurred Identities: The Threepenny Opera between Stage-Play, Musical and Film

Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English (UK)

Judith Wiemers

关键词: Threepenny Opera;    Brecht;    Film;    Weill;    Music and Literature;   

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: University of Durham

【 摘 要 】

This article focuses on the Threepenny Opera, a work of musical theatre that transcended genre boundaries throughout its performance history. In 1928, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill transformed the original English Beggar Opera into their famed stage-play with music, before German director G.W. Pabst adapted the material for the screen in 1931. This article explores the transition from stage to screen and the conflict that resulted between the authors and the film production company; it will interrogate how this dispute reflected the complex relationship between theatre and film, and analyse the extent to which Pabst interpretation is significant for the formation of the new genre of the German musical film.

【 授权许可】

CC BY