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

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 pol...

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Published in:Relief : revue electronique de littérature française 2012-10, Vol.6 (1)
Main Author: Anna Backman Rogers
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescence
Anachronistic
Coppola
Costume
Rite of Passage
Ritual
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1873-5045