American Pastorals : horizons et origines imaginaires dans Days of Heaven, Heaven’s Gate et Matewan

Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven (1978), Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate (1980) and John Sayles’ Matewan (1987) differ greatly in their cinematographic and aesthetic projects. Yet all share a similar calling into question of the pastoral ideal as the cradle of the American cultural and political i...

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मुख्य लेखक: Delanoë-Brun, Emmanuelle
स्वरूप: Article ou chapitre numérique
भाषा:Français
प्रकाशित: 2015
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spelling cairn-RFEA_142_0107RFEARevue française d’études américaines https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2015-1-page-107?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.142.0107 American Pastorals : horizons et origines imaginaires dans Days of Heaven, Heaven’s Gate et Matewan Delanoë-Brun, Emmanuelle2015 cinéma américainélégieengagementhistoireimaginairepastoraleréécriturereprésentationfre Revue française d’études américaines | 142 | 1 | 2015-10-02 | p. 107-121 | 0397-7870 RFEA_14242 Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven (1978), Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate (1980) and John Sayles’ Matewan (1987) differ greatly in their cinematographic and aesthetic projects. Yet all share a similar calling into question of the pastoral ideal as the cradle of the American cultural and political imagination. Operating on vastly different scales and production contexts, the three movies nonetheless converge towards a rehabilitation of the American pastoral imagination in the disenchanted context of the late 1970s or the triumphant materialism of the Reagan years. What this article examines is how these films reappropriate the pastoral mode as a means of reevaluating an artistic, historic and generic heritage, while challenging narrative and aesthetic practices, ultimately investigating and investing new forms of artistic and political involvements.Cairn free access
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topic cinéma américain
élégie
engagement
histoire
imaginaire
pastorale
réécriture
représentation
spellingShingle cinéma américain
élégie
engagement
histoire
imaginaire
pastorale
réécriture
représentation
Delanoë-Brun, Emmanuelle
American Pastorals : horizons et origines imaginaires dans Days of Heaven, Heaven’s Gate et Matewan
topic_facet cinéma américain
élégie
engagement
histoire
imaginaire
pastorale
réécriture
représentation
description Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven (1978), Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate (1980) and John Sayles’ Matewan (1987) differ greatly in their cinematographic and aesthetic projects. Yet all share a similar calling into question of the pastoral ideal as the cradle of the American cultural and political imagination. Operating on vastly different scales and production contexts, the three movies nonetheless converge towards a rehabilitation of the American pastoral imagination in the disenchanted context of the late 1970s or the triumphant materialism of the Reagan years. What this article examines is how these films reappropriate the pastoral mode as a means of reevaluating an artistic, historic and generic heritage, while challenging narrative and aesthetic practices, ultimately investigating and investing new forms of artistic and political involvements.
author Delanoë-Brun, Emmanuelle
author_facet Delanoë-Brun, Emmanuelle
author_sort Delanoë-Brun, Emmanuelle
title American Pastorals : horizons et origines imaginaires dans Days of Heaven, Heaven’s Gate et Matewan
title_short American Pastorals : horizons et origines imaginaires dans Days of Heaven, Heaven’s Gate et Matewan
title_full American Pastorals : horizons et origines imaginaires dans Days of Heaven, Heaven’s Gate et Matewan
title_fullStr American Pastorals : horizons et origines imaginaires dans Days of Heaven, Heaven’s Gate et Matewan
title_full_unstemmed American Pastorals : horizons et origines imaginaires dans Days of Heaven, Heaven’s Gate et Matewan
title_sort american pastorals : horizons et origines imaginaires dans days of heaven, heaven’s gate et matewan
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