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    What then is the difference between film and theatre? Or should one not rather ask: what are the differences? Let us be content wi th the reply that the screen has two dimensions and the stage three, that the screen presents photographs and the stage living actors. All the subtler differences stem from these. The camera can show us all sorts of things--from close-ups of insects to panoramas of prairies--which the stage cannot even suggest, and it can move from one to another with much more dexterity than any conceivable stage. The stage, on the other hand, can be revealed in the unsurpassable beauty of three-dimensional shapes, and the stage actor establishes between himself and his audience a contact real as electricity.


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    1941) where he received the John Addison Porter Prize. He edited the Grove Press issue of Brecht's work and recorded two albums of Brecht's songs for Folkways Records most of which had never before been recorded in English. Bentley is considered one of the preeminent experts on Bertolt Brecht whom he met at UCLA as a young man and whose works he has translated extensively.

    From 1960-1961 Bentley was the Norton professor at Harvard University. That same year he declared his homosexuality.

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