https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/489 Entrées d’index fr 0 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/486 In this article on The Son of Spartacus, a sword and sandals movie by the Italian filmmaker Sergio Corbucci, the author focusses on the ambivalence of pepla as both commercial/popular films and “suggestion boxes” – they are intended for entertaining the general public by staging Antiquity in a lavish and ornamental style, but simultaneously, they “make us think” on our present condition by raising essential questions that directly clip on our “problems” with politics, ethics, history, the government of the living, civilization and barbarity, etc. In The Son of Spartacus, Corbucci insistently deals with what Walter Benjamin call “the tradition of the oppressed”. Sword and sandals films are made of an inextricable entanglement of ornamental effects and “ideas” (Deleuze) – and this is what makes them so exciting. jeu., 30 nov. 2023 11:44:43 +0100 mar., 13 févr. 2024 09:50:49 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/486 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/969 The figure of Medea is proposed as one of symbolic exchange, essential for establishing a civilisation pact between women and men. In the first part, the text of Medea is interpreted by reporting Euripides' position in relation to hser character, followed by the relationship between Medea and the other women in this tragedy. In the second part, two figures that can be derived from Medea for a symbolic exchange are taken into consideration. One is anger, which triggers several moments of feminism. The other relates her to the many ways that feminine divine presents itself, including the aspect of a violent generator of transformation. mar., 16 janv. 2024 09:16:09 +0100 mar., 16 janv. 2024 09:16:21 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/969