Misreading Postmodern Antigone

Marco Bellocchio's Devil in the Flesh (Diavolo in Corpo)

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by Jan Jagodzinski

Type

Studies

Subject

One Film > The Devil in the Flesh

Keywords

Marco Bellocchio, sociology, feminism

Publishing date

2011

Publisher

Intellect Books

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 158 pages
7 x 9 inches (18 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-84150-361-5

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Book Presentation:
In the mid-1980s, film director Marco Bellocchio and renegade psychoanalyst Massimo Fagioli cowrote The Devil in the Flesh, a politically and sexually charged film illustrating some of Fagioli’s controversial theories. Echoing the anti-Lacanian sentiment popularized by Gilles Deleuze, the film is perhaps best remembered for a scene in which the character Andrea misreads a section of the famous Greek tragedy Antigone. But this scene has itself been frequently misread, opening up the text to questions of feminism, politics, and the representation of Antigone—a figure frequently used and abused in feminist politics. Displaying considerable analytic depth, Misreading Postmodern Antigone considers these divergent readings and what they have to tell us about contemporary society.

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