The Historical Threshold : Crisis, Ritual and Liminality in Sofia Coppola’s Marie-Antoinette (2006)

Auteurs

  • Anna Backman Rogers

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.18352/relief.762

Mots-clés :

Coppola, Costume, Ritual, Rite of Passage, Anachronistic, Adolescence

Résumé

Marie Antoinette does not pertain to any of the narrative tropes and standards set by the conventional historical drama. Rather, it is a film about the politicisation of the female body. Its focus on the rite of passage of a young girl into adulthood in an extreme situation is, in effect, highly political both in its effort to convey a specifically female subjectivity and in its eschewal of a more traditional treatment of its subject matter.

Biographie de l'auteur

Anna Backman Rogers

Anna Backman Rogers completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh. She currently works as a postdoctoral researcher in the cinema studies department at Stockholm University. She researches and writes on American Independent Cinema, feminist cinemas and film philosophy.

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Publiée

09-10-2012

Comment citer

Backman Rogers, A. (2012) « The Historical Threshold : Crisis, Ritual and Liminality in Sofia Coppola’s Marie-Antoinette (2006) », RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE, 6(1), p. 80–97. doi: 10.18352/relief.762.

Numéro

Vol. 6 No 1 (2012): Films d’histoire/Transculturalités

Rubrique

Articles – dossier thématique

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