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Childhood Fantasy and the Look in Alain Berliner's Ma vie en rose and François Ozon's Ricky

Devine, Jonathan Michael
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1437945373

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2015, Master of Arts, Miami University, French.
This study brings together two films in conversation about the nature of a series of critical transitions in form, gender, and representation. Ma vie en rose depicts the interior fantasies of Ludo, who believes that he is a garçon-fille, physically a boy, but mentally, and emotionally, a girl. Ricky tells the story of an infant who grows wings. I will focus on how the camera looks with, as well as looks at, these two children within their respective fantastic contexts. While Ludo’s interior fantasies (including his own fabricated characters) are projected unproblematically onto a public screen, in Ricky, the camera views the titular bird-baby as an object, his hybridity digitally recorded via cell phone, creating a sort of fictional history. Ma vie en rose and Ricky thus present films within films, this sort of mise en abyme emphasizing the fantastic nature of these two children.
Elisabeth Hodges (Advisor)
Mark McKinney (Committee Member)
Anna Klosowska (Committee Member)
48 p.
Film Studies; Gender; Modern Language; Motion Pictures
Childhood; Fantasy; the Look; Ma vie en rose; Ricky

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  • Devine, J. M. (2015). Childhood Fantasy and the Look in Alain Berliner's Ma vie en rose and François Ozon's Ricky [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1437945373

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Devine, Jonathan. Childhood Fantasy and the Look in Alain Berliner's Ma vie en rose and François Ozon's Ricky. 2015. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1437945373.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Devine, Jonathan. "Childhood Fantasy and the Look in Alain Berliner's Ma vie en rose and François Ozon's Ricky." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1437945373

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