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- Title
Imagining Marie Antoinette: Cultural Memory, Coolness and the Deconstruction of History in Cinema.
- Authors
Milam, Jennifer
- Abstract
This paper addresses the filmic representation of Marie Antoinette by Sofia Coppola as deconstructive cinema. It considers how anachronisms within the film draw attention to an ideological investment in Realism and questions if this is why we reject it as a dismal failure as a period film. Did Coppola build an image of Versailles simply to destroy it, as the final shots of the film suggest, leaving the viewer with only a "gold-plated" hang-over of vacuous consumption, a memory and sensation that they momentarily share with the film's protagonist? More importantly than this, however, is whether or not in destroying an image of the eighteenth century that is based on historical documentation, Coppola destroys our faith in any image of history? Certainly the film causes viewers "in the know" to distrust this image of history.
- Subjects
MARIE Antoinette (Film : 2006); COPPOLA, Sofia, 1971-; MARIE Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793; QUEENS in motion pictures; HISTORICAL films -- History &; criticism; ACCURACY; COSTUME design
- Publication
French History & Civilization, 2011, Vol 4, p45
- ISSN
1832-9683
- Publication type
Film/Television Criticism