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Convergencias en el punto impropio o de cómo Truffaut fue a encontrarse con Rousseau en el infinito.
2011
El pro-bufonismo parisino de mediados del XVIII y La Nouvelle Vague de dos siglos después no son, ni mucho menos, escuelas de pensamiento estético, sino más bien actitudes críticas de una juventud emergente que reclama para sí un protagonismo intelectual y artístico desde la periferia del poder, formas de entender el espectáculo operístico o la cinefilia en tiempos de crisis (sea del Antiguo Régimen durante el reinado de Luis XV, sea del mandato del general De Gaulle en la V República). No obstante, existen algunos parámetros que permiten amalgamar la variedad de elementos que dan entidad a ambos momentos: la existencia de una mínima doctrina crítica compartida, un programa estético que imp…
Shakespeare a part: Scenes of Translation in Jean-Luc Godard's Bande a part and the Nouvelle Vague
2018
The article explores the "otherness" of Shakespeare in some films of the nouvelle vague of the early sixties, and argues that this otherness is bound up with processes of cultural translation involving different kinds of movements (i.e., across cultures, languages as well as media boundaries
Exilic/Idyllic Shakespeare: Reiterating Pericles in Jacques Rivette’s Paris nous appartient
2015
Jacques Rivette’s Paris nous appartient (1961) is about a literature student, Anne Goupil, who becomes involved with a group of bohemians centering around the absent figure of Spanish musician, Juan. The film incorporates the attempt by theatre director Gérard Lenz – in many ways a simulacrum of Rivette himself – to stage Pericles, even though this is a play that he himself defines as “incoherent” and “unplayable.” This essay explores the significance of this incorporation, and shows how the reiterated, fragmentary rehearsals of this “unplayable” play are essential to an understanding of the (disjointed) logic of the film as well as the atmosphere of conspiracy it continually evokes. It als…