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The Historical Threshold : Crisis, Ritual and Liminality in Sofia Coppola’s Marie-Antoinette (2006)
Author:
Anna Backman Rogers
About Anna
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.
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.
How to Cite:
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), pp.80–97. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/relief.762
Publié le 09 Oct 2012.
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