Quand Christopher Lee recycle Boris Karloff : l’inquiétante étrangeté revisitée ou une incarnation britannique de l’Unheimliche freudien ?
When Christopher Lee became a star of British – and even world – horror cinema, he largely relied on canonical parts previously played by his predecessor Boris Karloff, himself a British émigré in Hollywood. The persistence in the use of British actors whose nationality is erased in favour of associ...
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| Language: | English |
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Association Française des Enseignants et Chercheurs en Cinéma et Audiovisuel
2018-01-01
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| Series: | Mise au Point |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/map/2442 |
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| Summary: | When Christopher Lee became a star of British – and even world – horror cinema, he largely relied on canonical parts previously played by his predecessor Boris Karloff, himself a British émigré in Hollywood. The persistence in the use of British actors whose nationality is erased in favour of associations with features that characterise dominated – especially colonised – identities suggests the hypothesis of a sociocultural reading supported by the Freudian concept of the Uncanny, revisited by its appropriation by Postcolonial Studies. |
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| ISSN: | 2261-9623 |