Quand Christopher Lee recycle Boris Karloff : l’inquiétante étrangeté revisitée ou une incarnation britannique de l’Unheimliche freudien ?

Abstract

When Christopher Lee became a star of British – and even world – horror cinema, he largely relied on canonical parts previously played by his predecessor Boris Karloff, himself a British émigré in Hollywood. The persistence in the use of British actors whose nationality is erased in favour of associations with features that characterise dominated – especially colonised – identities suggests the hypothesis of a sociocultural reading supported by the Freudian concept of the Uncanny, revisited by its appropriation by Postcolonial Studies.

Keywords

• star studies
• horror
• uncanny
• Boris Karloff
• Christopher Lee