{"product_id":"stages-of-reality-9781442612051","title":"Stages of Reality","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA groundbreaking collection of original essays, \u003cem\u003eStages of Reality\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStages of Reality\u003c\/em\u003e connects the theory and  practice of cinematic theatricality through conceptual analyses and close  readings of films including \u003cem\u003eThe Matrix\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThere Will be Blood\u003c\/em\u003e. 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, \u003cem\u003eStages of Reality\u003c\/em\u003e allows  readers to develop a clear sense of the multiple purposes and uses of  theatricality in film.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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.' -- Victoria Lowe Screen vol 55:01:2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  ANDRE LOISELLE and JEREMY MARON  Part One Traces of Theatricality: Stage-to-Screen Adaptations   * Self-Adaptation: Queer Theatricality in Brad Fraser's Leaving Metropolis and Robert Lepage's La face cachee de la lune  SYLVAIN DUGUAY   * Brechtian Television: Theatricality and Adaptation of the Stage Play  BILLY SMART   Part Two Cinematic Theatricality, Genre, and Gender   * Cinema du Grand Guignol: Theatricality in the Horror Film  ANDRE LOISELLE   * 'I'll Show Them!' Creating Legal Spectacles in Revenge Cinema  R.J. TOUGAS   * The Ethics of Murder: Trial as Performance in the Maternal Melodrama  BRENDA AUSTIN-SMITH   * Theatricality in the Cleopatra Films: Women (or We Men?) of Power  SARAH HATCHUEL   Part Three The Politics of Cinematic Theatricality   * Committed Theatricality  SYLVIE BISSONNETTE   * Theatrical Games and the Gift of a Fable: Performance vs. Reality in Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful  JEREMY MARON   Part Four Performance, Voice, Movement, and the Theatricality of Cinema   * Playing to the Balcony: Screen Acting, Distance, and Cavellian Theatricality  AARON TAYLOR   * Bullet-Time, Becoming, and the Sway of Theatricality: Performance and Play in The Matrix  BRUCE BARTON   Selected Bibliography  Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138274951511,"sku":"9781442612051","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442612051.jpg?v=1751918697","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/stages-of-reality-9781442612051","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}