Screened Stages - On Theatre in Film

This book is devoted to tracing the variety of ways that theatre, theatricality, and performance are embedded in Hollywood cinema as screened stages.

List of contents

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

About the author

Rachel Joseph is an Associate Professor of Human Communication and Theatre at Trinity University.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Joseph
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9780367498269
• ISBN: 978-0-367-49826-9
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Dance, History, Media Studies, The arts: general issues, ART / General, PERFORMING ARTS / General, ART / Film & Video, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Direction & Production, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Modern, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Popular, Theatre Studies, Humanities, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Internet: general works, Performance Art, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Screenwriting, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Direction & Production, The arts: general topics, theatre;film studies