Existentialism and contemporary cinema
Subtitle: a Beauvoirian perspective
By: edited by Jean-Pierre Boulé, and Ursula Tidd
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780857457295; 9780857457301
Subjects: Philosophy in motion pictures; Existentialism in motion pictures; Philosophy; Influence; Feminism and motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jean-Pierre Boulé and Ursula Tidd; title: Beauvoir's children: girlhood in Innocence / Emma Wilson; title: 'Devenir Mere': trajectories of the maternal bond in recent films starring Isabelle Huppert / Ursula Tidd; title: Claire Denis's Chocolat and the Politics of desire / Jean-Pierre Boulé; title: Revolutionary Road and The Second sex / Constance Mui and Julien Murphy; title: Simone de Beauvoir, melodrama and the ethics of transcendence / Linnell Secomb; title: La petite Jerusalem: freedom and ambiguity in the Paris banlieues / Claire Humphrey; title: 'How am I not myself?': engaging ambiguity in David O. Russell's I Huckabees / Bradley Stephens; title: Encounters with the 'third age': Benguigui's Inch'Allah dimanche and Beauvoir's Old age / Michelle Royer; title: Eastwood reading Beauvoir reading Eastwood: ageing and combative self-assertion in Gran Torino and old age / Oliver Davis; title: Les Belles images? mid-life crisis and old age in Tamara Jenkins' The savages / Susan Bainbrigge; title: Feminist phenomenology and the films of Sally Potter / Kate Ince.