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Le biopic du sportif américain
Published 2016-12-01“…This paper focuses on the specificities of biographical films dedicated to American sportsmen. Referring to more than fifty American films, it analyses the formal narrative and aesthetic elements that underlie the construction of sports heroes and celebrities, paying attention to the stories behind their public achievements. …”
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SPEAKING BODIES, VISIBLE VOICES: NARRATIVE TENSION IN COPPOLA’S APOCALYPSE NOW: REDUX (2001)
Published 2024-08-01“… Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now: Redux (2001), a 2001 re-release of his 1979 Vietnam War epic, sparked significant discussions among both academic scholars and mainstream media. …”
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Judas Iscariot: The Archetypal Betrayer and DeMille’s Cine-Biblical Salvation within The King of Kings (1927)
Published 2008-11-01“…Further research into DeMille studies, Hollywood epics, and the emerging interdisciplinary field of religion-and-film is recommended, warranted, and already long overdue.…”
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En Inde, dans les salles de cinéma, les spectateurs sont-ils acteurs ou simples spectateurs ?
Published 2012-04-01“…Indeed, in India, since the arrival of cinema, members of the audience do not content themselves with being simply spectators of the films projected. In that way, they distinguish themselves from their original role attributed by the epic poem, the Ramayana, in which they watched Sita’s sacrifice without reacting. …”
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Documentaire et fiction dans Norteado de Rigoberto Perezcano
Published 2012-09-01“…Thus, the film's focus is not on the actual crossing of the border, but rather on the stage that precedes it, namely his stay in Tijuana where, thanks to his positive encounters, Andrés becomes norteado in the end, both completely disoriented and won over by the North of Mexico. …”
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“Not the Lover’s Choice, but the Poet’s”: Classical Receptions in Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Published 2020-06-01“…Céline Sciamma’s film Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu, 2019) tells its 18th-century story of love and loss in part by retelling an ancient story, the myth of the poet Orpheus and his beloved Eurydice, as related by the Roman poet Ovid in his epic Metamorphoses (c. 8 CE). …”
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Editorial
Published 2021-12-01“… What can we learn about the intersections of gender and religion from plays, films, medieval epics, poetry, and ancient biblical texts? …”
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Cross-Gendering the Racial Memory
Published 2006-05-01“…Lacking the economic resources for such a luxury of patriarchal imagination, black nationalist practice most frequently resorts to more figurative embodiments of the gigantic feminine in art, poetry, song, and dance.Gaines’s gigantic female who voices and embodies black American epochal and epical history, Miss Jane Pittman, is cast as novel and film (1974) at the height of the black nationalist moment, when metaphorical she/males emblematizing the masculine heroism of black nation-building are proliferating all over the place in black popular culture. …”
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