%0 Journal Article
%T The Historical Threshold : Crisis, Ritual and Liminality in Sofia Coppola¡¯s Marie-Antoinette (2006) The Historical Threshold : Crisis, Ritual and Liminality in Sofia Coppola¡¯s Marie-Antoinette (2006)
%A Anna Backman Rogers
%J Revue Electronique de Litterature Francaise : RELIEF
%D 2012
%I Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals
%X 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. 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.
%K Coppola
%K Costume
%K Ritual
%K Rite of Passage
%K Anachronistic
%K Adolescence
%U http://www.revue-relief.org/index.php/relief/article/view/762