Une esthétique postmoderne : l’esprit kitsch dans The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014) by Pierre Beylot

“…This article recalls some of the works to which the notion of kitsch gave rise in the fields of art history and cultural industries; it then addresses the questions raised by kitsch in cinema through the example of The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014). Characteristic of a kitsch rhetoric, this example also makes it possible to question the criteria of judgment of taste employed by today’s spectators and to propose a typology of reception of more general scope.…”
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