The Death of an Icon
Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12244654 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Ezra (0000-0003-2877-9565, University of Stirling, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 301-310 |
| Publication date | 2004-09-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0957-1558 • E-ISSN: 1740-2352 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/009715580401500307 |
| OpenAlex | W2126041136 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
Amid the furore surrounding Amélie ’s digitally enhanced Paris, what has been overlooked is the fact that the film self-consciously thematises evolving technologies of vision and the modes of temporality they deploy, using the death of Princess Diana as the pretext for a meditation on the nature of iconicity. Amélie may be of the digital age, but it continually points nostalgically to the indexical, privileging the immediacy of human contact over mediatised, iconic identification. The film emphasises contingency as a form of resistance against hyper-rationalised, linear temporality, reflected in the tension between singularity and systematisation, or chance and fate ( le destin)
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Iconicity · Linguistics · Politics · Pretext · Temporality · French Historical and Cultural Studies · French Literature and Critical Theory · French Literature and Criticism · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2010 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |