248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book is devoted to tracing the variety of ways that theatre, theatricality, and performance are embedded in Hollywood cinema as screened stages.
A screened stage is the literal or metaphorical appearance of a stage on screen. When the Hollywood style emerged in cinema history it traumatically severed the entwined relationship between film and theatre. The book makes the argument that... Read more
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Screened Stages
Chapter 1: Disappearing in Plain Sight: from Magic Trick to Hollywood Style
Chapter 2: The Presentness of Charlie Chaplin and the Screen Dreams of Buster Keaton
Chapter 3: Longing for Depth in the Hollywood Musical
Chapter 4: Circulations: Performing Women from Three Films from 1950
Chapter 5: The Traumatic Stages of Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick
Chapter 6: David Lynch and the Stages of the Brokenhearted
Chapter 7: The Infinite Stages of Lars von Trier, Charlie Kaufman, and Wes Anderson
Index
Biography
Rachel Joseph is an Associate Professor of Human Communication and Theatre at Trinity University.
