Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Maior-Barron, Denise

Titel

Ange ou Démon?: Contemporary images of the last Queen of France at the Petit Trianon

Ist Teil von

• Marie Antoinette at Petit Trianon, 2019, p.201-249

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Chapter 7 is a comparative assessment of the historical, cinematic and architectural narratives of the book against the heritage narrative, taking each of the former three narratives’ main elements and juxtaposing them onto the context of the latter. Through this juxtaposition, the chapter evaluates the prevailing narrative in the context of the site’s perception, thereby discovering the emerging range of images associated with the last Queen of France at the Petit Trianon. Chapter 7 also seeks to detect the reasons behind the formation of such images and the processes that led to the unintentional strengthening of some of them, contributing to the dissonant commodification of Marie Antoinette’s historical character at the Petit Trianon. At the same time, Chapter 7 assesses the postmodern, perpetual multiplication of representational images that have escaped the authority of their creators. To this aim, the analysis is complemented by relevant visual theories concerning the encoding and decoding of postmodern images (Barthes 1972; Baudrillard 1994, 2001; Eco 1986; Hall 1997). It is through an assessment of the incessant manipulation of these images of the last Queen of France, since her reign, that this book reveals the misconceptions surrounding the historical character of Marie Antoinette. This chapter evaluates the prevailing narrative in the context of museology and popular culture perceptions of Marie Antoinette and the Petit Trianon, thereby discovering the emerging contemporary range of images associated with her historical character at the estate. It seeks to detect the reasons behind the formation of such images and the processes that led to the unintentional strengthening of some of them, which in turn have encouraged the dissonant commodification of Marie Antoinette's historical character at the Petit Trianon. The chapter examines the direct media influence of the film over the perception of the site, and certain film elements used by Chateau de Versailles management in the construction of the site's image. It provides an overview of the film's influence on wider off-site perceptions of Marie Antoinette, with the film considered to be solely a media source rather than a cinematic narrative.