"Does a Rose Speak When Spoken To?": Rococo Aesthetics and VisualResistance in Jacques Demy's Lady Oscar Público

Bollinger, Sharona (2017)

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This project will consider Jacques Demy's scarcely studied 1979 film Lady Oscar, a period drama set in the French court of Versailles about a cross-dressing noblewoman, as an expression of cinematic Rococo aesthetics. Based on Ikeda Riyoko's The Rose of Versailles manga from the early 1970s, Demy's film offers a transhistorical and transnational exercise of Rococo visuals and ethos. With reference to the subversive qualities of the Rococo, which forward visual spectacles of feminine fantasy and self-expression to challenge restricting and patriarchal structures, this paper is a pointed consideration of the similarities and differences of Rococo aesthetics in the historical court of Versailles, Demy's film oeuvre and Japanese shojo culture, culminating in Lady Oscar speaking to an experience of marginalized groups including the young, the feminine, and the queer.

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Article ………………………………………………………………… 1

Introduction ……………………………………… 1

Demy's Rococo ……………………………………… 8

A Rose by Any Other Name ……………………………… 22

A History of Desire ……………………………………… 44

Conclusion ……………………………………………………………… 57

Appendix: Literature Review …………………………………… 62

Filmography ……………………………………………………………… 79

Bibliography ……………………………………………………………… 80

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