Oscar Wilde Goes to the Movies: The framing of the dandy’s image in ‘Wilde’ (1997) and ‘Velvet Goldmine’ (1998)
The present article aims to discuss, based on reflections on History, Memory and Cinema, the framing of Oscar Wilde's image made by two contemporary but different movies: the biopic 'Wilde' (1997) and the musical drama 'Velvet Goldmine' (1998). After discussing the popularit...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade de Brasília (UnB) |
| Repositorio: | Em Tempo de Histórias (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/33929 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/emtempos/article/view/33929 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Oscar Wilde. Cinema. Cinebiografia. Oscar Wilde. Cinema. Biopic. |
| Resumo: | The present article aims to discuss, based on reflections on History, Memory and Cinema, the framing of Oscar Wilde's image made by two contemporary but different movies: the biopic 'Wilde' (1997) and the musical drama 'Velvet Goldmine' (1998). After discussing the popularity of biographical pictures and the role that can be assumed by an historian when analyzing this type of audiovisual production, considering the elements intrinsic to the cinematographic language, we wish to answer the following question: when compared to the musical drama released in 1998, was the biopic ‘Wilde' successful in the attempt to revisit Wilde's memory and reflect on the importance of this writer in contemporaneity? |
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