Stages of reality : theatricality in cinema; ed. by andre loiselle

A Groundbreaking Collection Of Original Essays, Stages Of Reality 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. Stages Of Reality Connects The Theory And Practice Of Cinematic Theatricality Through Conceptual Analyses And Close Readings Of Films Including The Matrix And There Will Be Blood. 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, Stages Of Reality Allows Readers To Develop A Clear Sense Of The Multiple Purposes And Uses Of Theatricality In Film.--page [i]. Introduction / André 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 Cachée De La Lune / Sylvain Duguay -- Brechtian Television, Theatricality And Adaptation Of The Stage Play / Billy Smart -- Part Two. Cinematic Theatricality, Genre, And Gender. Cinéma Du Grand Guignol, Theatricality In The Horror Film / André 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 -- Bullett-time, Becoming, And The Sway Of Theatricality, Performance And Play In The Matrix / Bruce Barton. Edited By André Loiselle And Jeremy Maron. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [229]-233). MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict Cover 1 Contents 6 Introduction 10 Part One: Traces of Theatricality: Stage-to-Screen Adaptations 18 1 Self-Adaptation: Queer Theatricality in Brad Fraser’s Leaving Metropolis and Robert Lepage’s La face cachée de la lune 20 2 Brechtian Television: Theatricality and Adaptation of the Stage Play 37 Part Two: Cinematic Theatricality, Genre, and Gender 60 3 Cinéma du Grand Guignol: Theatricality in the Horror Film 62 4 ‘I’ll Show Them!’ Creating Legal Spectacles in Revenge Cinema 88 5 The Ethics of Murder: Trial as Performance in the Maternal Melodrama 109 6 Theatricality in the Cleopatra Films: Women (or We Men?) of Power 123 Part Three: The Politics of Cinematic Theatricality 140 7 Committed Theatricality 142 8 Theatrical Games and the Gift of a Fable: Performance vs. Reality in Roberto Benigni’s Life Is Beautiful 167 Part Four: Performance, Voice, Movement, and the Theatricality of Cinema 190 9 Playing to the Balcony: Screen Acting, Distance, and Cavellian Theatricality 192 10 Bullet-Time, Becoming, and the Sway of Theatricality: Performance and Play in The Matrix 211 Selected Bibliography 236 Contributors 242

A groundbreaking collection of original essays, Stages of Reality 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.

Stages of Reality connects the theory and practice of cinematic theatricality through conceptual analyses and close readings of films including The Matrix and There Will be Blood. 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, Stages of Reality allows readers to develop a clear sense of the multiple purposes and uses of theatricality in film.

A groundbreaking collection of original essays, __Stages of Reality__ 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. __Stages of Reality__ connects the theory and practice of cinematic theatricality through conceptual analyses and close readings of films including __The Matrix__ and __There Will be Blood__. 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, __Stages of Reality__ allows readers to develop a clear sense of the multiple purposes and uses of theatricality in film.