List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
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 Film 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
Works Cited
Index

George Toles is Distinguished Professor of Literature and Film at the University of Manitoba and the author of A House Made of Light: Essays on the Art of Film and Paul Thomas Anderson. He has also authored or coauthored the screenplays of numerous Guy Maddin films, including My Winnipeg, Careful, Archangel, and The Saddest Music in the World.