Theatres on Film: How the Cinema Imagines the Stage

By Russell Jackson

Book Overview

This book focuses on the significance and effect of theatrical subject matter in key films in several genres, and ranges from Busby Berkeley to Ingmar Bergman, and from the haunted backstage world of The Phantom of the Opera to the sinister glamour of The Red Shoes and the theatrical politics of Mephisto and The Lives of Others.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719099927
• ISBN13: 9780719099922
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"