Open AccessJean Cocteau. Trilogy about Death, or Between Dionysius and Apollo
Author(s) -
Vladimir Vyacheslavovich Vinogradov,
Zh Kokto
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
vestnik vgik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2713-2471
pISSN - 2074-0832
DOI - 10.17816/vgik2374-88
Subject(s) - trilogy , mythology , apollo , context (archaeology) , art , literature , art history , history , archaeology , zoology , biology
The article is devoted to three films made by Jean Cocteau - Le Sang d'un poиte, Orphйe, Le Testament d'Orphйe, that form a trilogy of a kind. The author analyses the main image system of the trilogy in Apollonic and Dyonisic terms and comes to certain typological conclusions about Cocteau's mythology. Beside exploring the "modern" myth of Poet and Death, the article describes the cultural context around each of the mentioned ilms