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Stages of Reality: Theatricality Cinema
Stages of Reality: Theatricality Cinema in Bloomington, MN
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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.
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,
allows readers to develop a clear sense of the multiple purposes and uses of theatricality in film.
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.
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,
allows readers to develop a clear sense of the multiple purposes and uses of theatricality in film.
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