| Acknowledgements List of illustrations Introduction: the lure of the theatre 1. The backstage movie and the patterns of theatre life * Performing against the odds: 42nd Street and Gold Diggers of 1933 * Other styles and aspirations: Astaire and Rogers at RKO, the 'Broadway Melody' series, and Rooney and Garland at MGM * Backstager themes revisited: Singin' in the Rain, A Star is Born (1954) and The Band Wagon 2. Biopics, classic and revisionist * Jolson's iconic career and the religion of showbusiness * Glorifying the American impresario: The Great Ziegfeld * Yankee Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan and 'the mainspring in the Yankee Clock' * The revisionist biopic: Shakespeare and Moliere in love, Gilbert and Sullivan in difficulties 3. All about the Actress * Not quite All About Eve, * All About my Mother: performing (as) women 4. The Uncanny Theatre * Beneath the scenes, behind the walls: The Phantom of the Opera (1925) * A Double Life: mean streets, shadows and noir Shakespeare * The Red Shoes: glamour, ambition and retribution * Theatre and the haunted childhood: Bergman's Fanny and Alexander 5. Theatricality and Politics * A double life in a fascist regime: Mephisto (1981) * Spying and spectating: The Lives of Others (2007) * Theatre in a world of shadows: The Last Metro (1980) 6. Three auteurs and the theatre * Marcel Carne's Les enfants du paradis: the theatre as film's double * Jean Renoir and the theatre as image of society * Jaques Rivette and the incomplete theatre Conclusion Filmography and Bibliography Index |
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