Les chiens du rêve américain : représentations, récits et les limites de l’anthropomorphisme dans le cinéma hollywoodien et indépendant

Abstract

This article proposes a study of the various processes which the American cinema has employed to pose the question of our relation to the canine animal, and of the way in which these processes can be brought back to a fundamental opposition between, on the one hand, a utilitarian and anthropomorphic approach, inseparable from a certain politics of this cinema with regard to narrative and representation, and, on the other hand, a redefinition of this relation, as something occurring between the terms which it connects, namely the man and the dog, and calling into question the one’s primacy over the other.

Keywords

• minor cinema
• dogs
• American dream
• Hollywood
• powerlessness