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Book SynopsisDetailing 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.
Trade Review'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
Table of ContentsIntroduction 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
