Search results for "monstre"

Simbolismo animal y teratología en las Cantigas de Santa María

2006

L'animal comme reflet des craintes de l'homme. Rapport entre l'animal réel (de basse-cour ou fauve) l'animal imaginé (monstre, être démoniaque composite) et l'être difforme. Le corps physique perçu comme un signe de Dieu.

L'ombre du corps monstrueux

2009

David Cronenberg : une mission utopique

2002

This essay is meant as an introduction to the body of Cronenberg's work up to and including Spider. It is an attempt to analyze what Cronenberg calls his mission in aesthetic and ethical terms, Cronenberg having admitted to Serge Grünberg that he wanted to participate in changing contemporary norms by encouraging the spectator to see something beautiful when his initial reaction is repulsion. I argue that the utopian/dystopian aspect of the diegeses of Cronenberg's early films becomes a structuring element in his later films. I first examine Cronenberg's approach to the fantastique in Shivers and Rabid, with particular interest to the monster as a metaphor of the repulsive. In the later fil…