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AbstractThis article shows how a certain number of problems are posed when a text is indexed thematically and a theme is used to search for corresponding texts. Using the text base FRANTEXT, the study brings out the need for further thought on just what the idea of "theme" covers, and how the word thème is used in nineteenth and twentieth century texts: episodic, historic, existential themes..., always more or less specific poles of attraction capable of sparking off some activity, often of thought or representation, frequently translated by an oral or written message, characterized in turn by the recurrence of allusions to these themes. The understanding of the text means spotting the themes treated therein and the understanding of each theme entails the study of the contexts which illustrate it.
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This paper focuses on the films of Japanese director Yasujirô Ozu, with particular attention to I Was Born, But... (1932) inasmuch as they specify the way in which the cinematographic medium can be characterized as a destructive “third party”. This destructivity relates to a logic of separation that jeopardizes community. This study lets discriminates between two potentialities of the medium, whose “thirdness” can also be described as an “attending” presence, thus confronting the medium's destructivity.
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