Stages of Reality : : Theatricality in Cinema / / Jeremy Maron, André Loiselle.

• VerfasserIn: Maron, Jeremy,; Loiselle, André,
• MitwirkendeR: Austin-Smith, Brenda,; Barton, Bruce,; Bissonnette, Sylvie,; Duguay, Sylvain,; Hatchuel, Sarah,; Loiselle, André,; Maron, Jeremy,; Smart, Billy,; Taylor, Aaron,; Tougas, R. J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

A groundbreaking collection of original essays, Stages of Reality establishes a new paradigm for understanding the relationship between stage and screen media. This comprehensive volume explores the significance of theatricality within critical discourse about cinema and television.Stages of Reality connects the theory and practice of cinematic theatricality through conceptual analyses and close readings of films including The Matrix and There Will be Blood. Contributors illuminate how this mode of address disrupts expectations surrounding cinematic form and content, evaluating strategies such as ostentatious performances, formal stagings, fragmentary montages, and methods of dialogue delivery and movement. Detailing connections between cinematic artifice and topics such as politics, gender, and genre, Stages of Reality allows readers to develop a clear sense of the multiple purposes and uses of theatricality in film.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One. Traces of Theatricality: Stage-to-Screen Adaptations -- 1. Self-Adaptation: Queer Theatricality in Brad Fraser's Leaving Metropolis and Robert Lepage's La face cachée de la lune -- 2. Brechtian Television: Theatricality and Adaptation of the Stage Play -- Part Two. Cinematic Theatricality, Genre, and Gender -- 3. Cinéma du Grand Guignol : Theatricality in the Horror Film -- 4. 'I'll Show Them!' Creating Legal Spectacles in Revenge Cinema -- 5. The Ethics of Murder: Trial as Performance in the Maternal Melodrama -- 6. Theatricality in the Cleopatra Films: Women (or We Men?) of Power -- Part Three. The Politics of Cinematic Theatricality -- 7. Committed Theatricality -- 8. Theatrical Games and the Gift of a Fable: Performance vs. Reality in Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful -- Part Four. Performance, Voice, Movement, and the Theatricality of Cinema -- 9. Playing to the Balcony: Screen Acting, Distance, and Cavellian Theatricality -- 10. Bullet-Time, Becoming, and the Sway of Theatricality: Performance and Play in The Matrix -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors