Susanne Kennedy's Cinematic Melodrama on Stage Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The dynamics between poses and gazes in the work of Kennedy are key to this discussion of an earlier work of Kennedy, her staging of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s film Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant (2011). The chapter shows how Kennedy remediates Fassbinder’s highly stylized and formalist film, to the effect that she complicates the artistic artificiality of the acting body. Fassbinder’s film adopts, overacts and in so doing exposes ...