Les biopics d’hommes politiques : des « films de discours » ? Croisements esthétiques, rhétoriques et politiques autour du film Le Discours d’un roi
Political biopics are built on the speeches delivered by historical figures whose lives (or slices of lives) they retrace. If words survive their authors, speeches play a strategic role in the filmic construction of political figures who take up positions through their public stances. If the film ex...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Presses universitaires de Rennes
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Revue LISA |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/lisa/8988 |
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| Summary: | Political biopics are built on the speeches delivered by historical figures whose lives (or slices of lives) they retrace. If words survive their authors, speeches play a strategic role in the filmic construction of political figures who take up positions through their public stances. If the film exposes the political body by staging such moments, mise-en-scene reveals what is happening backstage. Imagining oratory steps onstage and backstage, biopics elaborate an aesthetic and political view of the speeches of their characters, questioning the relationship between reality and fiction. Through the study of The King’s Speech (Tom Hooper, 2010), this article highlights how the film makes use of speeches and creates an aesthetic and rhetorical dialogue while promoting its own political discourse. Instead of simply reproducing legendary formulations, biopics thus reactivate the power of well-known public speeches. |
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| ISSN: | 1762-6153 |