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Stages of Reality
Theatricality in Cinema
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English
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2011
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Maron Jeremy :
Jeremy Maron is a doctoral candidate in the Institute of Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture at Carleton University.Loiselle André :
André Loiselle is a professor in the Film Studies program and assistant vice-president (Academic) at Carleton University.
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Victoria Lowe:
‘This is a lively and stimulating collection of essays that will appeal to both theatre and film scholars and students alike, and ably demonstrate that a discussion of cinematic theatricality can facilitate productive reflection on the nature and function of filmic realities.’
‘This is a lively and stimulating collection of essays that will appeal to both theatre and film scholars and students alike, and ably demonstrate that a discussion of cinematic theatricality can facilitate productive reflection on the nature and function of filmic realities.’
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Contents
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Introduction
1 - Part One. Traces of Theatricality: Stage-to-Screen Adaptations
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1. Self-Adaptation: Queer Theatricality in Brad Fraser’s Leaving Metropolis and Robert Lepage’s La face cachée de la lune
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2. Brechtian Television: Theatricality and Adaptation of the Stage Play
30 - Part Two. Cinematic Theatricality, Genre, and Gender
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3. Cinéma du Grand Guignol : Theatricality in the Horror Film
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4. ‘I’ll Show Them!’ Creating Legal Spectacles in Revenge Cinema
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5. The Ethics of Murder: Trial as Performance in the Maternal Melodrama
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6. Theatricality in the Cleopatra Films: Women (or We Men?) of Power
116 - Part Three. The Politics of Cinematic Theatricality
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7. Committed Theatricality
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8. Theatrical Games and the Gift of a Fable: Performance vs. Reality in Roberto Benigni’s Life Is Beautiful
160 - Part Four. Performance, Voice, Movement, and the Theatricality of Cinema
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9. Playing to the Balcony: Screen Acting, Distance, and Cavellian Theatricality
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10. Bullet-Time, Becoming, and the Sway of Theatricality: Performance and Play in The Matrix
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Selected Bibliography
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Contributors
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December 31, 2011
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9781442696280
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