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Violent Saturday / Les inconnus dans la ville (Richard Fleischer – 1955)
par Lionel Gerin,
publié le 15/03/2017
- Trois hommes débarquent dans une petite ville américaine. Ils sont venus pour dévaliser la banque, un samedi, à la fermeture. Le hold-up va impliquer nombre d'habitants et révéler leurs secrets et les zones d'ombre de la ville en question. Le film, à l'instar du hold-up, est une mécanique de précision. En 90 minutes, savoir-faire oblige, Fleischer dresse un certain portrait de l'Amérique, à travers une galerie de personnages, tous crédibles, servis sur un pied d'égalité, sans moralisme bon marché.
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Imitation of Life / Mirage de la vie (Douglas Sirk - 1959)
par Lionel Gerin,
publié le 07/10/2016
- Le film raconte l'ascension et le succès de Lora (Lana Turner) qui, partie de rien, sacrifie sa vie amoureuse pour sa carrière d'actrice. Elle est aidée par Annie, une femme noire qu'elle héberge, et qui est tout à la fois femme de ménage, nounou, secrétaire, dame de compagnie. Toutes deux sont veuves et ont une fille. Il s'agit donc, entre autres, d'une histoire de réussite, mais c'est d'une self-made woman dont il est véritablement question ici, d'une incarnation féminine du rêve américain et des problèmes spécifiques que cela pose. Le film joue sur des couples: mère/fille, noire/blanche, riche/pauvre.
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Identity (Dana Spiotta)
par Dana Spiotta,
publié le 26/08/2015
- I read obituaries. I love to read about people who were notable for one thing—say the woman who appears in a famous photo at Kent State. I am drawn to what people think of as failures: the guy who backed the wrong videotape format or the guy who lost an election after a tweet. I like to read about people whose lives took dramatic turns, like the guy who spent most of his life running an ice cream shop in New Jersey but secretly had a past life as a war criminal. I am fascinated by secret lives or multiplex identities. I imagine the day-to-day ordinary life, what does it feel like over time. I wonder about consequences, guilt, and redemption. I wonder how your past shapes who you are. And I wonder about the life that takes shape around an event. How a fleeting moment can change you, or maybe not. Maybe you are you no matter what.
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David Vann: Secret and subtext
par David Vann,
publié le 07/10/2013
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All of the conventions of literary fiction can be successfully broken except one: there must be subtext, a second story beneath the surface. We don’t have to care about a protagonist or even really have a protagonist. We’re not limited to any particular style or structure. But our entire idea of literature being “about” something is based on a second narrative, something else that the surface narrative can point to. What’s interesting to me about this is that we live in a time when surface narratives are taking over. Blogs are generally so worthless for this one reason, that they lack subtext. The online world is, above all, earnest, saying exactly what it means.
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Mary Creagh on UK environmental policies
par Mary Creagh, Clifford Armion,
publié le 05/01/2012
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Mary Creagh is the Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. She has been a Member of Parliament for Wakefield since 2005. She answered our questions on the environmental policies implemented by the coalition government and the position of Labour on energy and environment related issues.
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King Lear comme fable
par Gérard Hocmard,
publié le 18/01/2010
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Pièce hors normes, Le Roi Lear a trouvé une résonance particulière dans le monde contemporain. Mais la construction se résume à une suite de confrontations; les personnages n'ont pas toujours beaucoup d'épaisseur et la catharsis attendue fait place à une série de paraboles qui s'emboîtent les unes dans les autres, tandis que le langage semble échapper aux protagonistes pour insister sur ce qui en l'homme est humanité et sur l'importance du lien social.
En fait, toute la technique dramatique semble au service d'un récit à caractère de conte, un peu comme celui que Mamillius définira comme « un conte d'hiver » dans la pièce éponyme. Il est permis de considérer Le Roi Lear comme une fable splendide et cruelle et là peut-être se trouve le secret de la fascination que la pièce exerce.
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Gender and genre in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden
par Marion Boucher,
publié le 22/06/2009
- Questions of genre and gender lie at the heart of The Secret Garden, which plays on different cultural and literary influences, and questions the ideological and social context in which it is inscribed.
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The “obstinate resistance” of Woolf’s short stories
par Christine Reynier,
publié le 31/03/2009
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I have often wondered why, although I have regularly gone back to Virginia Woolf's short stories, I still feel I do not know them very well. This is of course no other than the secret charm of Woolf's short stories: they are so hermetic or puzzling that one cannot help re-reading them; they are so varied that one keeps forgetting them; they are so challenging that one feels bound to delve into them again and again. They offer the "obstinate resistance" (Woolf 1988: 158) of the text that Woolf loves in Sir Thomas Browne's writings and that she analyses in her essay "Reading". The military metaphor of resistance might suggest that once the fortress of the text has been assaulted, it will surrender to the reader. However, the author makes it clear that such is not the case.
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Fiche de lecture : The Body, Hanif Kureishi
par Laura Menard,
publié le 03/05/2008
- The narrator of Hanif Kureishi’s novella is a British playwright in his mid-sixties called Adam who experiences the difficulty of living as an aging man. His struggle to maintain his self-esteem and joie de vivre prompts him to give a very cynical account of the old people’s situation in a society ruled by beauty, youth and desire. Adam’s gloomy life takes a favorable turn – or so he thinks … - when he meets Ralph, a handsome and young admirer of his, who secretly informs him he can look just as healthy and fit as he: he may be operated on to have his mind transferred from his old, decaying body to a New Body.
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The Victorian Sensation Novel
par Sophie Lemercier-Goddard, David Amigoni,
publié le 02/05/2008
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The sensation novel developed in Britain in the 1860s with Wilkie Collins as its most famous representative and has been increasingly presented as a sub-genre revealing the cultural anxiety of the Victorian period. Its complex narrative which relies on a tangle of mysteries and secrets introduces the character of the detective while heavily resorting to the Gothic machinery with the figure of the persecuted maiden and that of the villain.
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Across the ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’: Jean Rhys’s Revision of Charlotte Brontë’s Eurocentric Gothic
par Sylvie Maurel,
publié le 20/03/2008
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In this article, Sylvie Maurel analyses the Gothic destabilizing machinery at work in Jean Rhys’s "Wide Sargasso Sea". The first Gothic element the author looks at is the demonic agency that haunts the novel. Colonial history lingers in Rhys’s world and accounts for some of the strange and unexpected phenomena that occur on the island. Actually, the narrative is under the double influence of a past set in an actual history of slavery and a future already written in the story of "Jane Eyre". Rhys’s characters have an uncanny prescience of what lies ahead and a sense that they cannot evade repetition. The motif of witchcraft is another element that links "WSS" to the Gothic. The motif goes beyond a picturesque reference to the West Indian context and functions as a metaphor of the relationship between language and power. Christophine’s witchcraft and Rochester’s Eurocentric discourse are two similar attempts at transforming the world through language. The power of language is also reflected in the way the novel constantly brings together multiple voices and conflicting views which seem to hide a secret rather than reveal a final truth. Rochester can only feel the presence of such a secret and risks delirium as he tries to get a grip on something that constantly eludes him.
