A Never-Ending Road to Ithaca: The Presence and the Absence of Writing in Contempt, by Jean-Luc Godard, 1963

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  • Bruno Fontes Universidade de Coimbra

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.27.3.175-192

Keywords:

Jean-Luc Godard, Contempt, adaptation, cinema and writing, intermediality

Abstract

This article analyses the correspondences between the speculations about cinema and the role of the writing instances in the film Contempt (1963), in order to understand how this presence fulfills, but at the same time destabilizes, the issue of adaptation. Examining the writing in this film through these modalities allows one to conclude that Homer’s epic poem here is limited to a circuit of allusions and subscriptions that suggest that the cinematic adaptation of the Odyssey “preferred not to be written”, and also attest that it “resists” to an unequivocal idea of “text”, reflecting about cinema both through the presence and the absence of writing.

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Author Biography

Bruno Fontes, Universidade de Coimbra

Licenciou-se em Estudos Portugueses e Lusófonos na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, e concluiu, na mesma instituição, o Mestrado em Estudos Artísticos, na área de estudos fílmicos, com a defesa da tese “Num mundo sempre noir: um estudo do film noir moderno, seguido de uma análise de Chinatown, de Roman Polanski” (2011). Tem desenvolvido atividades em conjunto com diversas associações culturais em Coimbra, no Porto e na Figueira da Foz. As suas áreas de interesse centram-se no diálogo do cinema com as outras artes, das quais se destacam a literatura e a música, e na análise da arte e da cultura de massas na contemporaneidade. Está neste momento a frequentar o Doutorado em Materialidades da Literatura na Universidade de Coimbra, no âmbito do qual desenvolve uma tese acerca da representação da escrita na imagem fílmica nos casos em que o dispositivo é utilizado de forma reflexiva, com a orientação científica do Professor Doutor Osvaldo Manuel Silvestre (orientador) e do Professor Doutor Ricardo Namora (coorientador). 

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2017-12-29

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Fontes, B. (2017). A Never-Ending Road to Ithaca: The Presence and the Absence of Writing in Contempt, by Jean-Luc Godard, 1963. Aletria: Revista De Estudos De Literatura, 27(3), 175–192. https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.27.3.175-192

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Vol. 27 No. 3 (2017): Atualidade da Crítica e da Teoria das Literaturas de Expressão Francesa

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Varia

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