Robespierre au cinéma

• Publication type: Article from a collective work
• Collective work:
  La Révolution française et le monde d’aujourd’hui
  . Mythologies contemporaines
• Author: Baecque (Antoine de)
• Abstract: Until 1979 Robespierre was the character of the French Revolution who had been the most often depicted on-screen and on-stage, with 10 French films devoted to him, 6 British, 6 American, 4 Italian, 2 German and 2 Russian. Most of them revel in the morbid depiction of Robespierre, closely associating him with the Terror and with the guillotine: the deathly machine where he sent people to meet their end before eventually facing it himself. Cinema seems to be narrowly limited to the dark side of Robespierre-the-tyrant, in direct continuity with the Thermidorian tradition, while theatrical stages seem more open to display Robespierre’s poetical dimension.
• Pages: 271 to 281
• Collection: Encounters, n° 74
• Series: The eighteenth century, n° 6
• CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
• EAN: 9782812425585
• ISBN: 978-2-8124-2558-5
• ISSN: 2261-1851
• DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-2558-5.p.0271
• Publisher: Classiques Garnier
• Online publication: 05-06-2014
• Language: French

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