Stages of Reality: Theatricality in Cinema Book

Introduction

ANDRÉ LOISELLE and JEREMY MARON

Part One Traces of Theatricality: Stage-to-Screen Adaptations

1. Self-Adaptation: Queer Theatricality in Brad Fraser’s Leaving Metropolis and Robert Lepage’s La face cachée de la lune
   SYLVAIN DUGUAY

1. Brechtian Television: Theatricality and Adaptation of the Stage Play BILLY SMART

Part Two Cinematic Theatricality, Genre, and Gender

1. Cinéma du Grand Guignol: Theatricality in the Horror Film ANDRÉ LOISELLE

1. ‘I’ll Show Them!’ Creating Legal Spectacles in Revenge Cinema R.J. TOUGAS

1. The Ethics of Murder: Trial as Performance in the Maternal Melodrama BRENDA AUSTIN-SMITH

1. Theatricality in the Cleopatra Films: Women (or We Men?) of Power SARAH HATCHUEL

Part Three The Politics of Cinematic Theatricality

1. Committed Theatricality SYLVIE BISSONNETTE

1. 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

1. Playing to the Balcony: Screen Acting, Distance, and Cavellian Theatricality AARON TAYLOR

1. Bullet-Time, Becoming, and the Sway of Theatricality: Performance and Play in The Matrix
   BRUCE BARTON

Selected Bibliography

Contributors