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Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema : A Sartrean Perspective / ed. by Enda McCaffrey, Jean-Pierre Boulé.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780857453211
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I THE CALL TO FREEDOM -- 1 PETER WEIR’S THE TRUMAN SHOW AND SARTREAN FREEDOM -- 2 MICHAEL HANEKE AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF RADICAL FREEDOM -- 3 NAKED, BAD FAITH AND MASCULINITY -- 4 PURSUITS OF TRANSCENDENCE IN THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE -- 5 LORNA’S SILENCE: SARTRE AND THE DARDENNE BROTHERS -- PART II FILMS OF SITUATION -- 6 BEING – LOST IN TRANSLATION -- 7 IF I SHOULD WAKE BEFORE I DIE: EXISTENTIALISM AS A POLITICAL CALL TO ARMS IN THE CRYING GAME -- 8 CRIMES OF PASSION, FREEDOM AND A CLASH OF SARTREAN MORALITIES IN THE COEN BROTHERS’ NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN -- 9 ‘AN ACT OF CONFIDENCE IN THE FREEDOM OF MEN’: JEAN-PAUL SARTRE AND OUSMANE SEMBENE -- 10 CÉDRIC KLAPISCH’S THE SPANISH APARTMENT AND RUSSIAN DOLLS IN NAUSEA’S MIRROR -- 11 BAZ LUHRMANN’S WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S ROMEO + JULIET: THE NAUSEOUS ART OF ADAPTATION -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX
Summary: At the heart of this volume is the assertion that Sartrean existentialism, most prominent in the 1940s, particularly in France, is still relevant as a way of interpreting the world today. Film, by reflecting philosophical concerns in the actions and choices of characters, continues and extends a tradition in which art exemplifies the understanding of existentialist philosophy. In a scholarly yet accessible style, the contributors exploit the rich interplay between Sartre’s philosophy, plays and novels, and a number of contemporary films including No Country for Old Men, Lost in Translation and The Truman Show, with film-makers including the Dardenne brothers, Michael Haneke, and Mike Leigh. This volume will be of interest to students who are coming to Sartre’s work for the first time and to those who would like to read films within an existentialist perspective.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I THE CALL TO FREEDOM -- 1 PETER WEIR’S THE TRUMAN SHOW AND SARTREAN FREEDOM -- 2 MICHAEL HANEKE AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF RADICAL FREEDOM -- 3 NAKED, BAD FAITH AND MASCULINITY -- 4 PURSUITS OF TRANSCENDENCE IN THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE -- 5 LORNA’S SILENCE: SARTRE AND THE DARDENNE BROTHERS -- PART II FILMS OF SITUATION -- 6 BEING – LOST IN TRANSLATION -- 7 IF I SHOULD WAKE BEFORE I DIE: EXISTENTIALISM AS A POLITICAL CALL TO ARMS IN THE CRYING GAME -- 8 CRIMES OF PASSION, FREEDOM AND A CLASH OF SARTREAN MORALITIES IN THE COEN BROTHERS’ NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN -- 9 ‘AN ACT OF CONFIDENCE IN THE FREEDOM OF MEN’: JEAN-PAUL SARTRE AND OUSMANE SEMBENE -- 10 CÉDRIC KLAPISCH’S THE SPANISH APARTMENT AND RUSSIAN DOLLS IN NAUSEA’S MIRROR -- 11 BAZ LUHRMANN’S WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S ROMEO + JULIET: THE NAUSEOUS ART OF ADAPTATION -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

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At the heart of this volume is the assertion that Sartrean existentialism, most prominent in the 1940s, particularly in France, is still relevant as a way of interpreting the world today. Film, by reflecting philosophical concerns in the actions and choices of characters, continues and extends a tradition in which art exemplifies the understanding of existentialist philosophy. In a scholarly yet accessible style, the contributors exploit the rich interplay between Sartre’s philosophy, plays and novels, and a number of contemporary films including No Country for Old Men, Lost in Translation and The Truman Show, with film-makers including the Dardenne brothers, Michael Haneke, and Mike Leigh. This volume will be of interest to students who are coming to Sartre’s work for the first time and to those who would like to read films within an existentialist perspective.

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