18 research outputs found
La construction de la femme fatale : les multiples scénarios masochistes de Lola MontÚs
Plus elle est cruelle et infidĂšle, plus elle le maltraite, plus elle joue avec lui gratuitement et plus elle est dure, plus elle fouette son dĂ©sir et sâassure son amour et son admiration. Il en a toujours Ă©tĂ© ainsi, depuis lâĂ©poque dâHĂ©lĂšne et de Dalila, jusquâĂ Catherine la Grande et Lola MontĂšs.(Leopold de Sacher-Masoch, La VĂ©nus Ă la fourrure) Les hommes se damnent pour tâoffrir des trĂ©sors.(Chanson de M. Loyal, Lola MontĂšs) Lola MontĂšs est un film dâune Ă©trangetĂ© surprenante. Son atmosphĂš..
'Stuff it': Respectability and the voice of resistance in letter to brezhnev
Exploring Letter to Brezhnev through concepts of respectability as feminine cultural capital this article suggests that the filmâs affective impulse stems from its representation of a female, working class experience under Thatcherism. This experience is articulated through two structures of feeling derived from the intersecting conventions of social realism, and the consumerist and romantic tropes of the âwomanâs filmâ. Through this intersection the daily abjection of women through degrading work or unemployment is traced, whilst being counterpointed to the escapist pleasures of a ânight outâ constituted through the spatial and aesthetic shifts of the narrative, and the feminisation of the âjack the ladâ staple of British screen culture. In this way, Letter to Brezhnev exposes the centrality of respectability to womenâs social mobility, or lack of it, thus offering a powerful critique of Thatcherite ideologies and womenâs position as primary consumers within them. The article also offers a corrective to existing scholarship that has focussed on cinematic representations of a crisis of masculinity under Thatcherism to the neglect of its corrosive impact on feminine respectability