Curtains of light : theatrical space in film /
George Toles's Curtains of Light explores the ways in which various kinds of theatrical space in film engage with the film reality adjacent to them, and alter our understanding of the cinematic real. Film art is a dialogue between the world created for a film narrative and theatre spaces that c...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Albany, NY :
SUNY Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | SUNY series, horizons of cinema.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2583355 |
Table of Contents:
- 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 Cinema 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