How should we, Americans, confront our complicity in reproducing the Shoah? For complicit we are, if consumerism is any metric: Steven Spielbergs 1993 film Schindlers List had grossed $321 million as of 2012; more than 40 million people have made the pilgrimage to the sacred US Holocaust Museum; at last count, The Diary of Anne Frank had sold 30 million copies. These numbers are stale staples in the debate over the ethics of Shoah representation, of course, but they bear out the skepticism of critics who have questioned American Holocaust consumer culture. And consumerism is only the first of many such ethical quandaries, which include how to deal with the trauma that audiences experience upon viewing Holocaust films and what happens when secondary witnesses overidentify with Holocaust victims.This paper takes up an unusual form of Holocaust art: misrepresentative film. I discuss two films, Quentin Tarantinos Inglourious Basterds and Wes Andersons The Grand Budapest Hotel, to argue that intentional misrepresentations not only call attention to the pitfalls of traditional representation but also encourage audiences to work through the transhistorical trauma of the Shoah. Released in 2009, Tarantinos was perhaps unique in cinema for its radical alteration of history, intended to give audiences the sheer pleasure of seeing the Nazi regime go up, literally, in flames. Though the film is undoubtedly a revenge fantasy that, using Dominick LaCapras terms, embodies œacting out in response to historical trauma, it does so by flipping the traditional narrative: unlike most depictions of the Shoah, it complicates the victim-perpetrator binary, identifies audiences with the transgressors, and constantly calls attention to its own fictionality. Movies like The Grand Budapest Hotel are evidence that Tarantino really did shatter the constraints of the genre. Basterds certainly makes no effort toward historical accuracy, but since its appeal depends on the audiences awareness of its inaccuracies, Tarantino is still elbow-deep in real history. Anderson is not. Budapest is a troubled film, haunted by invasions, wars, arrests, and displays of arbitrary power, many of which recall the Third Reich. The function of these ominous forces, however, is not to offer commentary on the Shoah but simply to recreate the illusory world of Stefan Zweig, on whose writings it was based. In producing a movie about Nazi-occupied Europe in which the troubles of the period are relegated mostly to the background, Anderson furthers the deconstruction of the Holocaust film genre, raising the possibility that such films can be historically serious without being bound by restrictive rules.

[pt] No início dos anos 2010, críticos culturais apontaram o surgimento de uma nova corrente cinematográfica na produção independente europeia. A Estranha Onda Grega, como se popularizou, foi rapidamente associada à crise econômica deflagrada na Grécia em 2009, sendo seus filmes percebidos como retratos de um país em polvorosa. Em anos recentes, essa corrente de filmes passou a ser revista e questionada. A dissertação defende e argumenta que a Estranha Onda Grega não busca representar um país em crise (econômica, política ou moral), mas mergulhar na contemporaneidade - no sentido que Giorgio Agamben atribui a esse termo. Assim, entendemos que estes filmes focalizam, por meio da estranheza, a obscuridade do tempo presente. Propomos, ademais, que o mal-estar experimentado pelo espectador dessa cinematografia está relacionado a uma dinâmica disruptiva que atravessa os filmes no que tange à temporalidade, ao espaço, à estética, aos afetos entre personagens e à relação entre filme e espectador. A pesquisa parte de conceitos como a disciplinarização dos corpos e formação do discurso, em Michel Foucault, a emancipação espectatorial, em Jacques Rancière, a percepção, em Jonathan Crary, o tempo intemporal, em Manuel Castells, e o cinema de fluxo e seus afetos, para, em diálogo com eles, estabelecer um pequeno panorama da Estranha Onda Grega com a análise dos filmes Dente Canino (2009), de Yorgos Lanthimos; Interrupção (2015), de Yorgos Zois; Piedade (2018), de Babis Makridis; e Fruto da Memória (2020), de Christos Nikou. / [en] In the early 2010s, cultural critics pointed to the emergence of a new cinematic current in European independent film production. The Greek Weird Wave, as it came to be known, was soon associated with the economic crisis that broke out in Greece in 2009 and its films were perceived as portraits of a country in shambles. In recent years, however, this notion was revised and questioned. This dissertation argues that the Greek Weird Wave does not seek to represent a country in crises (economic, political, moral or otherwise), but to delve in contemporaneity – in the sense that Giorgio Agamben attributes to this term. Therefore, it is our understanding that these films focus, through weirdness, on the obscurity of present time. Furthermore, we propose that the discomfort experienced by the spectator whilst watching these films is related to the disruptive dynamics that constitute the diegetic configurations of time, space, aesthetics, affections between characters, and the relation between the films themselves and their spectators. This research is based on concepts such as the disciplinarization of bodies and the formation of discourse, according to Michel Foucault, spectatorial emancipation, according to Jacques Rancière, perception, according to Jonathan Crary, timeless time, according to Manuel Castells, and the cinema of flux and its affections. Based on these notions, we will establish a small overview of the Greek Weird Wave with the analyses of the following films: Dogtooth (2009), by Yorgos Lanthimos; Interruption (2015), by Yorgos Zois; Pity (2018), by Babis Makridis; and Apples (2020), by Christos Nikou.

Cette étude a pour principal objectif d’examiner l’usage de la caméra à l’épaule dans les films de fiction Faces de John Cassavetes et La Vie nouvelle de Philippe Grandrieux. Loin d’associer la caméra portée à la vision subjective d’un personnage, ces cinéastes semblent plutôt inscrire la caméra et son tremblé comme un tiers autonome qui entre néanmoins dans la zone fictionnelle. Par la position similaire qu’ils attribuent à la caméra et par l’importance qu’ils accordent à l’improvisation au tournage, ces deux cinéastes créent une proximité entre le personnage et la caméra, qui a un impact sur l’esthétique visuelle de leurs films. De par cette esthétique affectée, l’expérience vécue par le spectateur devant le film est intensifiée. En interrogeant le processus de création, l’esthétique de la caméra à l’épaule ainsi que la réception spectatorielle, nous verrons comment un tel transfert d’affect est rendu possible par cette tripartition. Pour faire l’analyse de ce transfert affectif, phénomène causé par ce que nous pourrons appeler la caméra catalytique, nous nous appuierons sur quelques philosophies choisies. / This study has as its main goal the examination of the use of the handheld camera in the films Faces by John Cassavetes and La vie nouvelle by Philippe Grandrieux. Far from associating the handheld camera to a character’s point of view these filmmakers seem to inscribe the camera and its shake as an autonomous third person which is part of the fictional space. By the similar position these filmmakers give to the camera and by the importance they attribute to improvisation during the shoot they create a proximity between the character and the camera which has an impact on the visual aesthetic of their films; this affected aesthetic intensifies the experience felt by the audience. By examining the process of making the film, the handheld aesthetic as well as the audience response, we will see how this transfer of affect is made possible. To analyse this affective transfer, caused by what one would call the catalytic camera, we will rely on a selection of chosen philosophies.

Cette recherche s’intéresse aux propriétés politiques du médium audiovisuel, et plus spécifiquement de la pratique cinématographique, devant un problème concret : la marginalisation de la jeunesse dans la société américaine contemporaine, symptomatique d’une perte d’espoir en l’avenir. Guidé par la théorie politique de Hannah Arendt, l’argumentaire consiste d’abord en deux analyses filmiques : une première de Kids (1995), réalisé par Larry Clark, porte sur l’invisibilité sociale de la jeunesse et la faculté du médium audiovisuel à confronter le spectateur. La seconde se penche sur le pouvoir systématisé auquel sont soumis les jeunes dans une institution scolaire bureaucratique, tel qu’il est mis en scène dans Elephant (2003) de Gus Van Sant, et interroge la capacité du médium à susciter la pensée chez le spectateur. Dans un troisième temps, une réflexion plus globale sur la situation actuelle de la culture cinématographique au sein du domaine audiovisuel dominé par le divertissement de masse explore la possibilité d’une polis audiovisuelle. Cette troisième et dernière partie reprend les thèmes soulevés dans les précédentes dans une perspective politique basée directement sur la pensée d’Arendt : ils donnent lieu aux questions de l’apparaître et de la durabilité du monde, qui sont les principales fonction de la polis, ainsi qu’à la question du rôle du spectateur. / This research is about the political properties of the audiovisual media, focusing on cinema as a specific practice, in front of a concrete problem: marginalized youth in contemporary American society, which is symptomatic of a loss of hope for the future. Guided by Hannah Arendt’s political theory, the arguments start with two film analyses: a first one of Larry Clark’s Kids (1995) concerns the social invisibility of youth, and audiovisual media’s faculty to confront the spectator. The second one takes a look at the systematized power to which youths are submitted in a bureaucratic educational establishment, as it is featured in Gus Van Sant’s Elephant (2003), and examines media’s capacity to bring the viewer to think. Third and last, a more overall reflection on the current situation of film culture within the audiovisual field dominated by mass entertainment explores the possibility of an audiovisual polis. This last part pursues the themes discussed in the two former ones in a politic perspective, directly based on Arendt’s thoughts: they lead to considerations on appearance and durability of the world, which are the main functions of the polis, as well as considerations on the spectator’s role.

Gli studi sull’adolescenza, sotto varie prospettive, si sono moltiplicati negli ltimi 50 anni a ritmo quasi esponenziale. Le ricerche antropologiche, la psico-pedagogia, la psichiatria clinica e psicodinamica, la genetica, le neuroscienze, la sociologia, le audience studies, celebrity studies e marketing, gli studiosi di ricostruire l’identikit dell’adolescente che spesso assume tratti contraddittori. A partire dagli anni ’50 la cinematografia coglie e valorizza le tendenze della cultura adolescenziale proponendo un set variato di produzioni riconducibili al genere teen movie. Il lavoro presente si propone di esplorare le adolescenze e gli adolescenti della contemporaneità, così come esse vengono raccontante nel genere cinematografico del teen movie hollywoodiano e della sua risposta nell’ambito produttivo italiano. / In the last 50 years the number of studies on adolescence and teenagers has been growing exponentially. From different perspectives and in many fields of research, from anthropology to neurology, from genetics to sociology, marketing and cultural studies, scholars try to trace the identikit of the contemporary teenager. Since the early 50's cinematography captures and highlights trends in teen culture, proposing a set of varied productions belonging to the teen movie genre. The present work aims to explore the contemporary adolescences and teens, the way teen films of Hollywood and the new Italian teen movies reflect them through a narratological lens.

[pt] Tendo como marco a crise dos paradigmas estéticos da modernidade e a queda das utopias e dos ideais emancipatórios, este trabalho analisa a atual imprecisão das fronteiras entre a alta cultura e a cultura midiática de mercado em meio à globalização da economia e à interseção dos campos artísticos na atualidade. Nesse contexto, discute-se, a partir da obra de François Ozon, e mais especificamente do filme Dentro da Casa (2012), o caráter fronteiriço de obras que, sem deixar de entreter, apresentam uma dimensão intertextual metalinguística, configurando-se, portanto, como filmes que apontam para a possibilidade de novas concepções para relações entre estética e política. / [en] Having as framework the modernity crisis of the aesthetics paradigms and the downfall of the utopia and the emancipatory ideals, this study analyzes the current imprecision on the borders between the high culture and the market s media culture in face of the economics globalization and the intersection of the artistic fields nowadays. In this regard this work discusses, looking at François Ozon s work and in particular to his film In the House (2012), the frontier nature of artworks that, not renouncing its entertainment aspect, bring a metalinguistic and intertextual dimension, therefore being movies that reveal possibilities of new conceptions towards the relation between aesthetics and politics.

Nous nous intéresserons dans ce présent mémoire à l’« idiotie » du réel à partir de deux œuvres, celle du philosophe français Clément Rosset et celle du cinéaste sud-coréen, Hong Sangsoo. Nous poserons comme hypothèse que ces deux auteurs, à travers leurs théorie du réel, qu’elle soit philosophique ou esthétique, arrivent à un constat commun : le réel est « idiot », non pas au sens d’imbécile, mais en son sens premier c’est-à-dire « singulier, sans reflets ni doubles » (Rosset). Pour vérifier cette hypothèse nous procéderons d’abord par la construction d’un cadre théorique réalisé à partir de la définition rossetienne du réel. Ce cadre nous permettra de problématiser à la fois l’utilisation du zoom, la construction narrative, ainsi que les jeux temporels propres aux films de Hong, et ce, à partir de trois films du cinéaste : « Le pouvoir de la province de Kangwon » (1998), « Night and Day » (2007) et « Matins calmes à Séoul » (2011). Enfin il sera question, dans la dernière partie de ce mémoire, d’observer quelles peuvent être les conséquences engendrées par le fait de reconnaître ou non l’idiotie de toute réalité, à la fois dans des termes philosophiques mais également au plan de la prise d’images photographiques ou cinématographiques. / In this master’s thesis we will focus on the idiocy of reality in the work of two authors: Clément Rosset, a French philosopher, and Hong Sangsoo, a South-Korean filmmaker. As a hypothesis we will defend that both Rosset and Hong, through their theory of reality, come to the same conclusion: the reality is “idiot”, not in the sense of stupid, but in its primary meaning, in other words “singular, without any glare or double” (Rosset). To verify this assumption we will first build a theoretical framework based on Clément Rosset’s definition of the “réel”. This theoretical framework will allow us to problematize the use of the zoom, the narrative construction and the temporal games present in three Hong Sangsoo movies that we will analyze: “The Power of Kangwon Province” (1998), “Night and Day” (2007), “The Day He Arrived” (2011). Finally, in the last chapter we will discuss and observe what may be the consequences of recognizing or not the idiocy of any reality, in philosophical terms and for cinematographic creation.

Nous nous intéresserons dans ce présent mémoire à l’« idiotie » du réel à partir de deux œuvres, celle du philosophe français Clément Rosset et celle du cinéaste sud-coréen, Hong Sangsoo. Nous poserons comme hypothèse que ces deux auteurs, à travers leurs théorie du réel, qu’elle soit philosophique ou esthétique, arrivent à un constat commun : le réel est « idiot », non pas au sens d’imbécile, mais en son sens premier c’est-à-dire « singulier, sans reflets ni doubles » (Rosset). Pour vérifier cette hypothèse nous procéderons d’abord par la construction d’un cadre théorique réalisé à partir de la définition rossetienne du réel. Ce cadre nous permettra de problématiser à la fois l’utilisation du zoom, la construction narrative, ainsi que les jeux temporels propres aux films de Hong, et ce, à partir de trois films du cinéaste : « Le pouvoir de la province de Kangwon » (1998), « Night and Day » (2007) et « Matins calmes à Séoul » (2011). Enfin il sera question, dans la dernière partie de ce mémoire, d’observer quelles peuvent être les conséquences engendrées par le fait de reconnaître ou non l’idiotie de toute réalité, à la fois dans des termes philosophiques mais également au plan de la prise d’images photographiques ou cinématographiques. / In this master’s thesis we will focus on the idiocy of reality in the work of two authors: Clément Rosset, a French philosopher, and Hong Sangsoo, a South-Korean filmmaker. As a hypothesis we will defend that both Rosset and Hong, through their theory of reality, come to the same conclusion: the reality is “idiot”, not in the sense of stupid, but in its primary meaning, in other words “singular, without any glare or double” (Rosset). To verify this assumption we will first build a theoretical framework based on Clément Rosset’s definition of the “réel”. This theoretical framework will allow us to problematize the use of the zoom, the narrative construction and the temporal games present in three Hong Sangsoo movies that we will analyze: “The Power of Kangwon Province” (1998), “Night and Day” (2007), “The Day He Arrived” (2011). Finally, in the last chapter we will discuss and observe what may be the consequences of recognizing or not the idiocy of any reality, in philosophical terms and for cinematographic creation.

Depuis les années 1990, un motif formel particulier a pris de l’ampleur au cinéma : il s’agit de la conjonction du caméscope intradiégétique et du point de vue médiatisé, deux procédés qui représentent respectivement un caméscope intégré à une narration filmique et le point de vue de ce que tourne une caméra intradiégétique (caméscope ou non) dans une scène donnée. À partir de cette constatation, cette thèse propose d’observer certaines caractéristiques propres à ces procédés, en utilisant les outils du néoformalisme de Kristin Thompson et de la poétique historique de David Bordwell, autant en ce qui concerne leur utilisation dans les films et leur évolution dans l’histoire du cinéma. La problématique comporte deux volets. Le premier est analytique et se penche sur un corpus de films qui utilisent le caméscope intradiégétique ou le point de vue médiatisé de façon importante, soit American Beauty (1999), Blair Witch Project (1999), Caché (2005) et Le journal d’un coopérant (2010). L’objectif est de dégager des séries de fonctions, de stratégies, de normes, de conventions et d’alternatives propres à l’usage de ces procédés. Pour cela, le corpus principal sera comparé à un corpus plus large, comprenant une variété de films provenant autant du cinéma classique que moderne. Le second volet est historique et concerne l’évolution stylistique particulière de ces deux procédés et de leur conjonction, principalement dans le cinéma classique hollywoodien. Dans un premier temps, l’étude des caméras intradiégétiques au cinéma avant les années 1980, donc durant la période qui précède l’arrivée du caméscope, permet de comprendre les différences et les ressemblances avec le cinéma actuel. Dans un deuxième temps, l’évolution récente du caméscope intradiégétique et du point de vue médiatisé depuis les années 1980 est une façon d’observer comment cette conjonction s’est développée en parallèle à d’autres phénomènes comme la progression du mode amateur, les nouvelles possibilités de tournage en vidéo au cinéma, l’essor du cinéma pornographique gonzo ou la popularisation du style run and gun et de la caméra-épaule. Derrière ces observations, il sera question de voir à quel point la popularité de la conjonction du caméscope intradiégétique et du point de vue médiatisé est représentative d’une fragmentation ou d’une intensification du style du cinéma contemporain par rapport à celui qui l’a précédé. / Since the 1990s, a formal pattern that has become increasingly popular in film is the combined use or “conjunction” of the intradiegetic camcorder and the mediated point of view, two devices that are represented respectively by a camcorder integrated to a filmic narration and the point of view of what an intradiegetic camera (camcorder or not) is shooting in a given scene. Taking this observation as a starting point, this dissertation proposes to examine some of the characteristics of these devices, using the tools of Kristin Thompson’s neoformalism and David Bordwell’s historical poetics, with concern both for their uses in movies and their evolution in the history of cinema. This research problem is divided into two aspects. The first is analytical and is concern with a corpus of movies that make salient use of the intradiegetic camcorder or the mediated point of view: American Beauty (1999), The Blair Witch Project (1999), Caché (2005) and Le journal d’un coopérant (2010). The objective is to reveal a series of functions, strategies, norms, conventions and alternatives that are characteristic of the use of these devices. To achieve this, the main corpus will be compared with a larger one composed of a variety of movies from classical as well as modern cinema. The second aspect is historical and is concerned with the particular stylistic evolution of these two devices and their conjunction, primarily in classical Hollywood cinema. On the one hand, the study of intradiegetic cameras prior to the 1980s (during the period before the invention of the camcorder) elucidates the differences and similarities between previous and actual cinema. On the other hand, the recent evolution of the intradiegetic camcorder and the mediated point of view since the 1980s provides insight into the way in which this conjunction has developed in parallel with other phenomena such as the development of the amateur mode, the new possibilities offered by shooting in video for the film industry, the expansion of pornographic gonzo cinema or the popularization of the run and gun style and of the hand-held camera. Using these observations, we will determine the extent to which the popularity of the conjunction of the intradiegetic camcorder and the mediated point of view is representative of a fragmentation or an intensification of the style of contemporary cinema compared to the cinema of previous periods.