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Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema : A Beauvoirian Perspective / ed. by Ursula Tidd, Jean-Pierre Boulé.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (198 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780857457295
  • 9780857457301
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.E945 E93 2012
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Beauvoir’s Children: Girlhood in Innocence -- 2 ‘Devenir Mère’: Trajectories of the Maternal Bond in Recent Films starring Isabelle Huppert -- 3 Claire Denis’s Chocolat and the Politics of Desire -- 4 Revolutionary Road and The Second Sex -- 5 Simone de Beauvoir, Melodrama and the Ethics of Transcendence -- 6 La Petite Jérusalem: Freedom and Ambiguity in the Paris Banlieues -- 7 ‘How Am I Not Myself?’ Engaging Ambiguity in David O. Russell’s I Huckabees -- 8 Encounters with the ‘Third Age’: Benguigui’s Inch’Allah Dimanche and Beauvoir’s Old Age -- 9 Eastwood Reading Beauvoir Reading Eastwood: Ageing and Combative Self-Assertion in Gran Torino and Old Age -- 10 Les Belles Images? Mid-Life Crisis and Old Age in Tamara Jenkins’ The Savages -- 11 Feminist Phenomenology and the Films of Sally Potter -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary: Simone de Beauvoir’s work has not often been associated with film studies, which appears paradoxical when it is recognized that she was the first feminist thinker to inaugurate the concept of the gendered ‘othering’ gaze. This book is an attempt to redress this balance and reopen the dialogue between Beauvoir’s writings and film studies. The authors analyse a range of films, from directors including Claire Denis, Michael Haneke, Lucille Hadzihalilovic, Sam Mendes, and Sally Potter, by drawing from Beauvoir’s key works such as The Second Sex (1949), The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947) and Old Age (1970).
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Beauvoir’s Children: Girlhood in Innocence -- 2 ‘Devenir Mère’: Trajectories of the Maternal Bond in Recent Films starring Isabelle Huppert -- 3 Claire Denis’s Chocolat and the Politics of Desire -- 4 Revolutionary Road and The Second Sex -- 5 Simone de Beauvoir, Melodrama and the Ethics of Transcendence -- 6 La Petite Jérusalem: Freedom and Ambiguity in the Paris Banlieues -- 7 ‘How Am I Not Myself?’ Engaging Ambiguity in David O. Russell’s I Huckabees -- 8 Encounters with the ‘Third Age’: Benguigui’s Inch’Allah Dimanche and Beauvoir’s Old Age -- 9 Eastwood Reading Beauvoir Reading Eastwood: Ageing and Combative Self-Assertion in Gran Torino and Old Age -- 10 Les Belles Images? Mid-Life Crisis and Old Age in Tamara Jenkins’ The Savages -- 11 Feminist Phenomenology and the Films of Sally Potter -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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Simone de Beauvoir’s work has not often been associated with film studies, which appears paradoxical when it is recognized that she was the first feminist thinker to inaugurate the concept of the gendered ‘othering’ gaze. This book is an attempt to redress this balance and reopen the dialogue between Beauvoir’s writings and film studies. The authors analyse a range of films, from directors including Claire Denis, Michael Haneke, Lucille Hadzihalilovic, Sam Mendes, and Sally Potter, by drawing from Beauvoir’s key works such as The Second Sex (1949), The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947) and Old Age (1970).

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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