Stages of Reality : : Theatricality in Cinema / / Jeremy Maron, André Loiselle.
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...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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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