The Confrontation of Desires:

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  • 夢の交点／欲望の対立
  • 夢の交点/欲望の対立 : ヴィンセント・ミネリ『ボヴァリー夫人』のニューロティック・ワルツ
  • ユメ ノ コウテン/ヨクボウ ノ タイリツ : ヴィンセント ・ ミネリ 『 ボヴァリー フジン 』 ノ ニューロティック ・ ワルツ
  • ヴィンセント・ミネリ『ボヴァリー夫人』のニューロティック・ワルツ
  • The “Neurotic Waltz” in Vincente Minnelli’s <i>Madame Bovary</i>

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<p>In 1949, Vincente Minnelli directed Madame Bovary. This Hollywood film is based on Gustave Flaubert’s classic novel of the same title and famous for depicting the intense desires and immoral deeds of Madame Bovary when the Production Code was still effective. But this paper demonstrates that the film represents her husband’s desires as well.</p><p>At first, this paper pays attention to the changes of the characterization of Charles Bovary from the original novel. These changes make him intelligent and likable enough to avoid viewers’ sympathy with his wife Emma’s affair. However, the point is that these changes also make him desire her affection, try to satisfy her, and finally recognize his inability to do so. This paper reveals how the film represents his repressed desires and his hysterical eruption of them through the anatomical chart in his consulting room and his drunkenness during the famous “neurotic waltz” scene. The film is not only about Emma’s desire and dream but about Charles’ own ones. This fact makes it clear that the film differs from other Hollywood woman’s films in the 1940s, and rather relates to the films in the 1950s.</p>

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  • eizogaku

    eizogaku 96 (0), 48-67, 2016

    Japan Society of Image Arts and Sciences

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