Toles Curtains of Light

Theatrical Space in Film
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8423-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema

Provides a new way of thinking about film's relation to theatre.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Toles, George

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Curtains of Light

2. Intoxicating Stagecraft: Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend and the Mysteries of Theatre in Film

3. The Theatre of Aloneness in Film

4. Eloquent Objects, Housebound Theatre: William Wyler's The Heiress

5. Prospero Unbound: John Barrymore's Theatrical Transformations of Film Reality

6. Auditioning Betty in David Lynch's Mulholland Dr.

7. Theatres Rational and Irrational in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo

8. Stage Deaths in Film: The Hamlet Factor

Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

George Toles is Distinguished Professor of Literature and Film at the University of Manitoba and the author of A House Made of Light: Essays on the Art of Film and Paul Thomas Anderson. He has also authored or coauthored the screenplays of numerous Guy Maddin films, including My Winnipeg, Careful, Archangel, and The Saddest Music in the World.