{"product_id":"stages-of-reality-9781442643529","title":"Stages of Reality","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDetailing 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.\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","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408365560151,"sku":"9781442643529","price":42.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442643529.jpg?v=1730502632","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/stages-of-reality-9781442643529","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}