Action, Space and Emotion in Film: Reality and Speech Acts in Bresson and Scorsese

Authors

  • Patrizia Lombardo University of Geneva, Switzerland

Abstract

This paper refers to the issue of reality in film and includes some remarks on the emotions expressed by the character or the situation in the chosen filmic  examples as well as on the emotions provoked in the spectator. The awareness of speech acts can pave the way to our critical work today, and renew the  study of literature or art: it can offer unexpected interpretations, “mistreating” – as Barthes would have said – a text. The perspective of performativity can  help me in refining my interpretation of some well-known films and filmmakers. I will concentrate on two examples: Bresson and Scorsese.

Author Biography

Patrizia Lombardo, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Patrizia Lombardo has taught at Princeton University, University of Southern California Los Angeles, University of Pittsburgh and University of Geneva. She is now Emeritus Professor in the  Department of French at the University of Geneva where she has been leading since 2009 the Project “Aesthetic  Emotions and Affective Dynamics” at the Interdisciplinary Center for Affective Sciences . She has published scholarly articles on French 19th and 20th century literature, literary criticism and literary theory, comparative literature, aesthetics, history of ideas, and theories of emotions.

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Published

2025-01-19

How to Cite

Lombardo, P. (2025). Action, Space and Emotion in Film: Reality and Speech Acts in Bresson and Scorsese. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai - Dramatica, 69(2), 205–228. Retrieved from https://dramatica.ro/index.php/j/article/view/331