Original scientific paper
The view of a (true) victiom: a transmedial and feminist reading of Miss Julie
Ivan Medenica
; Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade
Abstract
In the play Miss Julie by the Berlin Schaubühne Company English director Katie Mitchell applies a very personal intertwining of theater and film arts. This intertwining cannot be reduced to other familiar forms of the fusion of these arts, namely, the use of video transmission in the dramatic plot. In order to analyze the specifics of such a theatrical language we will refer to the concept of transmediality or transmedial narration as laid out by Henry Jenkins and Marie-Laure Ryan. This will be a starting point for reaching the ultimate goal of the analysis: to prove the hypothesis that the impact of film language on theater is precisely the way to fundamentally change interpretative perspective. This change of view is undoubtedly feminist which we shall endeavor to show by the analysis of the theatrical language but will also rely upon the basic sources of the feminist film theory. Our ancillary hypothesis that Miss Julie is not an isolated case in this respect in the work of Katie Mitchell will be substantiated by pointing to her other productions where she has used the same method: Shadow (Eurydice Speaks), according to Elfriede Jelinek’s play and The Waves, according to Virginia Woolf’s fiction.
Keywords
Katie Mitchell; theater and film; transmedial; feminism; post-drama; Miss Julie
Hrčak ID:
213397
URI
Publication date:
19.12.2018.
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