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Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Revenir : la peur envisagée par Mario Bava (Les Trois visages de la peur / I Tre volti della paura, 1963)

Nicolas Cvetko

Langue: FR | Date de publication: | Résumé

Ghosts populate Mario Bava’s films and are at the heart of Black Sabbath (1963). The three episodes of this anthology film depict their terrifying appearance. The Telephone offers a harrowing “huis-clos” amid manipulation and revenge. The Wurdulak, a Gothic fantasy tale, questions the fear of the other through the essential ambiguity of the vampire. Finally, in The Drop of Water, a cruel tale if any, the ghost appears as an image of the Unheimlich and a metaphor for wholly-assumed special effects and illusions. This manifesto-type triptych film is thus characterized by a quest of both efficiency and distance to arouse fear on the screen, on the faces that inspire it as well as on those who express it.


Key words: Mario Bava, fear, ghosts, faces, film aesthetics




Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Filiation symbolique : le refus de la puissance paternelle dans Œdipe roi de Pier Paolo Pasolini

Sylwia Frach

Langue: FR | Date de publication: | Résumé

The parent–child relationship is omnipresent in the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini. In Oedipus Rex, the filmmaker uses both the original myth and Sophocles’ tragedy to underline the fact that the father–son relationship is rooted in the Ancient World. Moreover, as will be depicted later on, Pasolini uses the work to evoke his personal experiences and artistic style. In this sense, the film is founded on psychoanalytic theories. Oedipus embodies the heart of Freudian thought: metahistorical hatred against the father, patricide and incest on the one hand, nostalgia and longing for the mother’s womb on the other. At the epicenter of this reflection lies the Oedipal theme of father–son relationship coupled with his digressions.



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Caballeros de la oscuridad: la Orden del Temple en el cine de Amando de Ossorio

Antonio Huertas Morales , María Bosch Moreno

Langue: ES | Date de publication: | Résumé

The tragic end of the Templars turned them into a myth that has left a deep mark on the contemporary narrative. Currently, seen as innocent martyrs, the Templars acquired features, as wanted San Bernardo, of celestial militia, fighting the forces of evil. However, the legends that bind tight and unorthodox beliefs have shifted even historiographical versions, and the Templars also become dark and intriguing characters. Before the massive appearance of the Templars in Spanish narrative of the end of the millennium, the Galician filmmaker Amando de Ossorio made some films about the warriors-monks, giving them horror film features and binding them to the family of vampires, mummies and zombies. The treatment they were given by the Galician filmmaker, despite the originality and some of the literary reminiscences, is to be inserted in the continuous process of mystification of the Templars.


Key words: Order of the Temple, mythology, Amando de Ossorio, cinema, medieval-themed narrative




Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Femininity in the Position of the Oppressed in Nino Ricci’s Lives of the Saints A Comparison to Nelly Arcan’s Putain in Canadian and Quebec Literary Portrayals of Contemporary Womanhood

Ewa Drab

Langue: EN | Date de publication: | Résumé

Nino Ricci, an award-winning English-speaking Italian descendant, and Nelly Arcan, suicidal Quebecker from Montreal, portray contemporary womanhood as seen through the lenses of oppression. In Ricci’s Lives of the Saints the figure of mother becomes a curse of the woman’s son, whose whole existence is conditioned by his mother’s incidental and adulterous pregnancy. The mother shifts from the position of an individual to the position of a symbol by becoming sinful representation of her disobedience in the relation to social rules. She is dominated by masculine gaze and rules established by men. Inversely acts Cynthia, the prostitute in Nelly Arcan’s Putain, who chooses her fate intentionally but who is equally conditioned by the social environment in which she grew up. Being a prostitute is an act of succumbing to masculine tyranny.

Key words: womanhood, oppressor, subjugation, Ricci, Arcan.



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Faat Kiné d’Ousmane Sembène, femme libre dakaroise

Ewa Kalinowska

Langue: FR | Date de publication: 31-12-2025 | Résumé | p. 1-13

Faat Kiné, protagoniste du film éponyme du réalisateur sénégalais, Ousmane Sembène, est une femme forte, indépendante et sûre de ses agissements. Elle représente une incarnation de la  liberté au sein d’une société traditionaliste qui ne donne guère de droits aux femmes. Elle symbolise la modernité : en vivant dans un monde où le patriarchat est fort, elle fait entendre sa voix et atteint ses buts. Sembène met en évidence une figure de femme exceptionnelle qui n’a pas besoin qu’une part quelconque de pouvoir lui soit concédée, elle s‘en empare elle-même. Le film apparaît comme un manifeste vivant et direct du féminisme, ce qui sert de cadre à notre analyse.

 

2025-12-31



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Sexual Politics: Mapping the Body in Marguerite Duras’s L’Amant

Richard J. Gray II

Langue: EN | Date de publication: | Résumé

In L’Amant (1984), through the juxtaposition of traditional male/female sexual roles, Marguerite Duras painted a gynocentric portrait of sexual politics. By depicting a series of encounters in diverse parts of the Indochinese (Vietnam) landscape, Duras’s novel described the sexual “coming of age” story of her female protagonist’s. Each Vietnamese setting became a visual and sensory metaphor for the various developmental stages of the protagonist. In this essay, I contend that Duras’s use of contrasting settings serves to “flesh out” the sexual politics conveyed in the novel. Herein, I examine the geographic locations illustrating the sexual politics of the novel, including the Mekong River signifying the female protagonist’s rite of passage, Cholon, the city where the girl experiences sexual liberation and a struggle with the established authority, the lover’s apartment where the couple consummates their relationship, and finally, France representing the land of wealth to which the protagonist will eventually return.


Key words: autobiography, Judith Butler, Cholen (Cholon), colonisation, crossing, gender, juxtaposition, Marguerite Duras, Julia Kristeva, liberation, liminal space, mapping the body, Mekong, Kate Millett, Other, post-colonial, prostitution, sexploitation, sexuality, sexual politics.

In L’Amant (1984), through the juxtaposition of traditional male/female sexual roles, Marguerite Duras painted a gynocentric portrait of sexual politics. By depicting a series of encounters in diverse parts of the Indochinese (Vietnam) landscape, Duras’s novel described the sexual “coming of age” story of her female protagonist’s. Each Vietnamese setting became a visual and sensory metaphor for the various developmental stages of the protagonist. In this essay, I contend that Duras’s use of contrasting settings serves to “flesh out” the sexual politics conveyed in the novel. Herein, I examine the geographic locations illustrating the sexual politics of the novel, including the Mekong River signifying the female protagonist’s rite of passage, Cholon, the city where the girl experiences sexual liberation and a struggle with the established authority, the lover’s apartment where the couple consummates their relationship, and finally, France representing the land of wealth to which the protagonist will eventually return.


Key words: autobiography, Judith Butler, Cholen (Cholon), colonisation, crossing, gender, juxtaposition, Marguerite Duras, Julia Kristeva, liberation, liminal space, mapping the body, Mekong, Kate Millett, Other, post-colonial, prostitution, sexploitation, sexuality, sexual politics.

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