Screened Stages

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

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

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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