Existentialism and contemporary cinema
Subtitle: a Sartrean perspective
By: edited by Jean-Pierre Boulé and Enda McCaffrey
Series: Berghahnonfilm
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780857453204; 9780857453211
Subjects: Philosophy in motion pictures; Existentialism in motion pictures; Philosophy; Influence
Notes: "Berghahnonfilm" [appears Berghahn and film in white, on in green with no space between words])--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jean-Pierre Boulé and Enda McCaffrey; title: The call to freedom. Peter Weir's The Truman show and Sartrean freedom / Christopher Falzon; title: Michael Haneke and the consequences of radical freedom / Kevin L. Stoehr; title: Naked, bad faith and masculinity / Mark Stanton; title: Pursuits of transcendence in The man who wasn't there / Tom Martin; title: Lorna's silence: Sartre and the Dardenne brothers / Sarah Cooper; title: Films of situation. Being; title: Lost in translation / Michelle R. Darnell; title: If I should wake before I die: existentialism as a political call to arms in The crying game / Tracey Nicholls; title: Crimes of passion, freedom and a clash of Sartrean moralities in the Coen brothers' No country for old men / Enda McCaffrey; title: 'An act of confidence in the freedom of men': Jean-Paul Sartre and Ousmane Sembene / Patrick Williams; title: Cédric Klapisch's The Spanish apartment and Russian dolls in Nausea's mirror / Jean-Pierre Boulé; title: Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: the nauseous art of adaptation / Alistair Rolls.