5. The Ethics of Murder: Trial as Performance in the Maternal Melodrama

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part One. Traces of Theatricality: Stage-to-Screen Adaptations
5. 1. Self-Adaptation: Queer Theatricality in Brad Fraser’s Leaving Metropolis and Robert Lepage’s La face cachée de la lune 13
6. 2. Brechtian Television: Theatricality and Adaptation of the Stage Play 30
7. Part Two. Cinematic Theatricality, Genre, and Gender
8. 3. Cinéma du Grand Guignol : Theatricality in the Horror Film 55
9. 4. ‘I’ll Show Them!’ Creating Legal Spectacles in Revenge Cinema 81
10. 5. The Ethics of Murder: Trial as Performance in the Maternal Melodrama 102
11. 6. Theatricality in the Cleopatra Films: Women (or We Men?) of Power 116
12. Part Three. The Politics of Cinematic Theatricality
13. 7. Committed Theatricality 135
14. 8. Theatrical Games and the Gift of a Fable: Performance vs. Reality in Roberto Benigni’s Life Is Beautiful 160
15. Part Four. Performance, Voice, Movement, and the Theatricality of Cinema
16. 9. Playing to the Balcony: Screen Acting, Distance, and Cavellian Theatricality 185
17. 10. Bullet-Time, Becoming, and the Sway of Theatricality: Performance and Play in The Matrix 204
18. Selected Bibliography 229
19. Contributors 235