CLEOPATRA:

BEYOND DICHOTOMY BETWEEN FICCTION AND REALITY

Abstract

The article presents the results of an essay that searched on analyzing the different attributes that overlaid representations of the historical Cleopatra from a corpus formed by different audiovisual productions: “Cleopatra (Gaskill, USA, 1912), “Cleopatra” (Mankiewicz, UK, 1963) and the contemporary comedy “Asterix&Obelix: mission Cleopatra” (Chabat, Fra/Ger, 2002). The article is about the idea on which the ways of cinematography actions witnessed the world’s conception (FERRO, 2010) that documented and monumentalized (NAPOLITANO, 2011) through an ocidentalization process (SAID, 1990; SHOHAT, 2004) which secured mystics, exotics and sexual characteristics in this notorious and female character, culminating in the reinvention of the last Egyptian ruler.