War, Catharsis, Peace: Ancient Greek Visions and 21st Century Violence
Par Christine Froula : Professor of English - Northwestern University
Publié
par
Marion Coste
le 12/03/2020
This presentation brings together an American play and an American film inspired by Greek plays: Aeschylus’s ((Suppliants)) and Aristophanes’s ((Lysistrata)). Charles Mee’s gripping drama ((Big Love)) (2000) animates the plot of ((The Suppliants)) to explore the violence of the American socio-economic sex/gender system, moving from male violence to female violence to catharsis to peace. The title of Spike Lee’s brilliant, urgent, visionary utopian film ((Chi-Raq)) (2015) names Chicago’s horrific neighborhood gang wars and America’s imperial violence in one angry word and empowers its heroine, Lysistrata, to organize the neighborhood women to seize arms, treasure and the power of language in order to stop the gang warfare that, in real life as in the film, destroys children and young men in our city every day.
This talk was part of the "Lectures in English Studies" programme of the Department of English at the ENS de Lyon and was organized by Vanessa Guignery.
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Introduction | 00:06 |
1. Staging violent crises and states of emergency | 06:31 |
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10:01 |
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12:00 |
2. Aeschylus’s The Suppliants | 15:20 |
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15:42 |
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20:15 |
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24:20 |
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32:35 |
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41:26 |
3. Charles Mee's Big Love (2000) | 43:15 |
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44:35 |
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48:35 |
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54:21 |
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59:41 |
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01:12:30 |
4. Aristophanes’s Lysistrata and Spike Lee's Chi-raq | 1:17:18 |
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1:17:47 |
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1:25:37 |
Pour citer cette ressource :
Christine Froula, War, Catharsis, Peace: Ancient Greek Visions and 21st Century Violence, La Clé des Langues [en ligne], Lyon, ENS de LYON/DGESCO (ISSN 2107-7029), mars 2020. Consulté le 21/11/2024. URL: https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/litterature/litterature-americaine/war-catharsis-peace-ancient-greek-visions-and-21st-century-violence