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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.
Contents
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
Bullet-Time, Becoming, and the Sway of Theatricality: Performance and Play in The Matrix
BRUCE BARTON
Selected Bibliography
Contributors



