THE POWER OF IMAGES: OSCAR WILDE AND MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI REVISITED

Abstract

What senses can we make of works by Oscar Wilde and Michelangelo Antonioni in contemporary times, when the fast-paced rhythm of cyberspace and hypermodern society demands even greater awareness and consciousness of our existence than, perhaps, at the times of the first publications of The Picture of Dorian Gray in 1890 and 1891, as much as the premiere of the film Blow-Up in 1966 and its release in 1967? We intend to show how both narratives read uncommitedly to literary criticism in the context of health humanization proposed by the Laboratory of Humanities (hereafter referred to as Labhum) at the Federal University of São Paulo opened transcultural possibilities for the better understanding of hipermodernity.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56238/sevened2025.036-077