Ghosts on the sand: François Ozon's haunted beaches
2013; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 27; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/10304312.2013.824862
ISSN1469-3666
Autores Tópico(s)Decadence, Literature, and Society
ResumoThis article examines the films of François Ozon and their repeated use of the beach as a place of abjection, death and haunting. It argues against the critical consensus that Ozon's films can be divided into camp provocations or serious chamber pieces, demonstrating that the beachscape works against binary oppositions, and acknowledging the vital role the beach plays in his filmography as a site that permits queer mourning, a subversive and transgressive practice that melds the serious and the playful. The beach and the cinema share a range of characteristics, troubling the borders between absence and presence, stillness and movement, life and death. Ozon's emphasis on the beach as indeterminate border, where the difference between the living and the dead becomes imperceptible, thus offers a self-reflexive investigation of the transgressive potential of cinema itself.
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