Anthony Paraskeva is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Roehampton University, UK. He is the author of The Speech-Gesture Complex: Modernism, Theatre, Cinema.

By examining a vast array of early European films that Beckett is known to have seen from the 1930s onward, Paraskeva makes even Beckett’s latest and shortest works shine with newly found intertextual brilliance … a truly remarkable contribution to Beckett Studies— especially in Paraskeva’s intrepid research through loads of European films.

• Introduction1. Late Keaton, Docufiction, the Nouvelle Vague2. Self-Perception and Asynchronous Sound: Godard, Hitchcock, Resnais3. ‘texte théâtre film’: Auteurism, Meyerhold/Eisenstein, Duras4. Photogénie, the Close-Up, Gender PerformanceBibliographyIndex

Anthony Paraskeva is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Roehampton University, UK. He is the author of The Speech-Gesture Complex: Modernism, Theatre, Cinema.

By examining a vast array of early European films that Beckett is known to have seen from the 1930s onward, Paraskeva makes even Beckett’s latest and shortest works shine with newly found intertextual brilliance … a truly remarkable contribution to Beckett Studies— especially in Paraskeva’s intrepid research through loads of European films.

• Introduction1. Late Keaton, Docufiction, the Nouvelle Vague2. Self-Perception and Asynchronous Sound: Godard, Hitchcock, Resnais3. ‘texte théâtre film’: Auteurism, Meyerhold/Eisenstein, Duras4. Photogénie, the Close-Up, Gender PerformanceBibliographyIndex

Anthony Paraskeva is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Roehampton University, UK. He is the author of The Speech-Gesture Complex: Modernism, Theatre, Cinema.

By examining a vast array of early European films that Beckett is known to have seen from the 1930s onward, Paraskeva makes even Beckett’s latest and shortest works shine with newly found intertextual brilliance … a truly remarkable contribution to Beckett Studies— especially in Paraskeva’s intrepid research through loads of European films.

• Introduction1. Late Keaton, Docufiction, the Nouvelle Vague2. Self-Perception and Asynchronous Sound: Godard, Hitchcock, Resnais3. ‘texte théâtre film’: Auteurism, Meyerhold/Eisenstein, Duras4. Photogénie, the Close-Up, Gender PerformanceBibliographyIndex