Transatlantica Revue d’études américaines. American Studies Journal 2 | 2015 The Poetics and Politics of Antiquity in the Long Nineteenth-Century / Exploiting Exploitation Cinema Electronic version URL: http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/7648 DOI: 10.4000/transatlantica.7648 ISSN: 1765-2766 Publisher AFEA Electronic reference Transatlantica, 2 | 2015, “The Poetics and Politics of Antiquity in the Long Nineteenth-Century / Exploiting Exploitation Cinema” [Online], Online since 15 December 2015, connection on 29 April 2021. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/7648; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica. 7648 This text was automatically generated on 29 April 2021. Transatlantica – Revue d'études américaines est mis à disposition selon les termes de la licence Creative Commons Attribution - Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale - Pas de Modification 4.0 International. 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS The Poetics and Politics of Antiquity in the Long Nineteenth-Century Introduction: The Poetics and Politics of Antiquity in the Long Nineteenth- Century Ronan Ludot-Vlasak Mercy Otis Warren, the American Revolution and the Classical Imagination Eran Shalev From Savage to Sublime (And Partway Back): Indians and Antiquity in Early Nineteenth- Century American Literature Mark Niemeyer “Solutions in Hieroglyphic”: Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Picturesque Language,” and the Ancient Near East Mathieu Duplay Radical Innocence: Margaret Fuller’s Utopian Rome Leslie Elizabeth Eckel “Orpheus’ Sermon”: Making a Case for an Antiquer Dickinson Eric Athenot Proserpine upon the Coin: Melville’s Quest for Greek Beauty in “Syra” Bruno Monfort Henry James’s Spectral Archaeology Stefano Evangelista Exploiting Exploitation Cinema Exploiting Exploitation Cinema: an Introduction David Roche Exploitation Cinema and the Lesbian Imagination Anne Crémieux Exploitation Feminism: Trashiness, Lo-Fidelity and Utopia in She-Devils on Wheels and Blood Orgy of the Leather Girls Kristina Pia Hofer Sex, Gore and Provocation: the Influence of Exploitation in John Waters’s Early Films Elise Pereira Nunes “Unnatural, unnatural, unnatural, unnatural unnatural” . but real? The Toolbox Murders (Dennis Donnelly, 1978) and the Exploitation of True Story Adaptations Wickham Clayton Quentin Tarantino : du cinéma d’exploitation au cinéma Philippe Ortoli Hostel (Eli Roth, 2005 et 2007), le torture-porn et le cinéma d’exploitation : l’être humain à l’ère de sa reproductibilité technique Pierre Jailloux Transatlantica, 2 | 2015 2 The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (Rob Zombie, 2009): An Animated Exploitation of Exploitation Cinema Pierre Floquet Hors-thème “The Past Undetonated”: Nostalgia and Storytelling in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral Tanguy Bérenger L’autobiographie ou l’art de la vie dans A Small Boy and Others de Henry James Thomas Constantinesco and Agnès Derail Actualités de la recherche The Historical “Dispute of the New World.” European Historians of the United States and European History, Culture and Public Life, International Workshop Fondazione Luigi Einaudi – Turin, September 10-11, 2015 Francesca Cadeddu Think Tank IdA : « Le processus de normalisation des relations États-Unis/Cuba : défis et perspectives » Institut des Amériques, Maison de l'Amérique Latine, mardi 6 octobre 2015 Shirley Yoselin Rodríguez Paz Colloque annuel de l’Institut des Amériques (IdA) : « Ressources et Innovations dans les Amériques » Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès, 14-16 octobre 2015 Lucile Bentley and Chloé Monasterolo Compte-rendu de la journée d’étude « Le travail contraint dans les Amériques avant l’abolition de l’esclavage » Université de Poitiers – 16 octobre 2015 Kalilou Barry Atelier-conférence : Smaro Kamboureli « From CanLit to Canlits : The Re-formation of a Discipline » Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, 17 novembre 2015 Samuel Harvet Journée d’Étude : « Le récit d’esclave, publications récentes et perspectives » Université Paris 13 – 27 novembre 2015 Josette Spartacus Arts et littérature Symposium “Photo Archives V: The Paradigm of Objectivity” The Getty Center & The Huntington, Los Angeles / San Marino, February 25-26, 2016 Carolin Görgen One-day symposium “Small Town America” Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, 6 novembre 2015 Claire Cazajous-Augé and Jérémy Potier Transatlantica, 2 | 2015 3 Colloque international « L’œuvre de Brian Evenson » Université Rennes 2, 21-22 mai 2015 Maud Bougerol 4ème conférence annuelle du réseau européen des études sur la Beat Generation (EBSN) Université Libre de Bruxelles, 28-31 octobre 2015 Peggy Pacini and Anna Aublet Journée d’études « Photographie et histoire américaine » Université Paris Diderot, 25 septembre 2015 Eliane de Larminat Recensions Xiaojing Zhou, Cities of Others. 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This permeation of ancient models in a new nation seeking to break from the yoke of European culture presents some paradoxes which have been pointed out by historian Meyer Reinhold: Despite the distance from the great centers of humanistic learning, the absence of visible relics of the Greek and Roman presence to memorialize the continuity with classical antiquity and excite feelings of pride in the cultural heritage, and sporadic opposition on religious and utilitarian grounds, classical learning was swiftly naturalized on American soil, and in consequence a fair number of colonial and Revolutionary Americans were nurtured and molded by the humanistic tradition (Reinhold, 1984, 23). Be it the name of certain institutions (the Senate) or their location (the Capitol), the influence of antiquity in early American art and architecture, the founding of cities named after ancient figures (Cincinnati), or the place of classics in college curricula, Greco-Roman antiquity was meant to provide the new nation with a set of political, aesthetic and philosophical models on the foundation of which its inhabitants might fulfil their destiny. Such ubiquity of (neo)classical culture led educated men and women in the late eighteenth century to speak of antiquity as a familiar world, to which they claimed to be the rightful heirs. Joseph Warren thus wore “a Ciceronian toga” in order to commemorate the Boston massacre in 1775 (Winterer, 2002, 26) and John Adams likened classical antiquity to a boudoir of octagonal shape with a “full- length mirror on every side” in which the citizens of the New World might see their reflection (quoted in Shalev, 2009, 2). 2 This fantasized connection to ancient cultures impacted Americans’ understanding of historical time. In Rome Reborn on Western Shores, Eran Shalev has demonstrated that Transatlantica, 2 | 2015 7 American history lent itself to typological readings and was often referred to as a reenactment of Greek and Roman annals. Antiquity was turned into both the birthplace of Western civilization and a horizon setting an example to be followed and improved by the emerging nation. Claiming continuity between the American experience and the classical world was also a way of downplaying the cultural ties which united the United States and Britain although these uses of antiquity were often mediated through eighteenth-century British appropriations of such models, the enduring presence of Addison’s Cato in American revolutionaries’ political imagination being a case in point (Shalev, 2009, 99-104). 3 Despite this “cult of antiquity” (Reinhold, 1984, 23), ancient cultures proved to be an ambivalent model at the turn of the nineteenth century. Athens’ cultural legacy and Sparta’s military ethos