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

Author(s)

  • Anna Backman Rogers

DOI:

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

Keywords:

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

Abstract

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.

Author Biography

  • 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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Published

2012-10-09

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 1 (2012): History movies /Transculturalities

Section

Articles - thematic dossier

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How to Cite

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