| Titre | La représentation de San Francisco dans le cinéma américain | |
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| Auteur | Dominique Sipière | |
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Revue | Revue française d'études américaines |
| Numéro | no 56, mai 1993 Images de l'Amérique dans le cinéma américain. | |
| Page | 8 pages | |
| Résumé anglais |
Most films considered here belong to the Hollywood classical cinema : their aim is to entertain a large audience through a double plot (love story + adventure story) for which they first use San Francisco as a background without changing it. This implies two levels of representation : the photographic pictures, partly shot in LA studios, are traces of an objective reality that, in its turn, the story invests with specific meanings. The opening sequence of The Birds, for instance, includes real pictures of cable cars in Union Square but they also introduce a special way of looking at them that connects birds with Melanie's physical presence. This leads to the question asked in this paper : what is the influence of San Francisco's actual as well as mythical history — and the use Fiction has made of them — on the images the films convey ? Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/rfea_0397-7870_1993_num_56_1_1492 |
