Existentialism and contemporary cinema : a Beauvoirian perspective /: a Beauvoirian perspective. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jean-Pierre Boulé and Ursula Tidd.
• Editors: Boulé, Jean-Pierre; Tidd, Ursula
• Contents: Acknowledgements <a href="/downloads/intros/BouleExistentialismII_intro.pdf" target="_blank"><img align="left" border="0" onmouseout="this.src='/img/icon_pdf.png'" onmouseover="this.src='/img/icon_pdf2.png'" src="/img/icon_pdf.png" /> Introduction ; Jean-Pierre Boulé and Ursula Tidd Chapter 1. Beauvoir's Children: Girlhood in Innocence ; Emma Wilson Chapter 2. 'Devenir Mère ': Trajectories of the Maternal Bond in Recent Films starring Isabelle Huppert; Ursula Tidd Chapter 3. Claire Denis's Chocolat and the Politics of Desire; Jean-Pierre Boulé Chapter 4. Revolutionary Road and The Second Sex ; Constance Mui and Julien Murphy Chapter 5. Simone de Beauvoir, Melodrama and the Ethics of Transcendence; Linnell Secomb Chapter 6. La Petite Jérusalem: Freedom and Ambiguity in the Paris banlieues ; Claire Humphrey Chapter 7. 'How Am I Not Myself?' Engaging Ambiguity in David O. Russell's I &hearts; Huckabees ; Bradley Stephens Chapter 8. Encounters with the 'Third Age': Benguigui's Inch'Allah dimanche and Beauvoir's Old Age ; Michelle Royer Chapter 9. Eastwood Reading Beauvoir Reading Eastwood: Ageing and Combative Self-Assertion in Gran Torino and Old Age ; Oliver Davis Chapter 10. Les Belles Images ? Mid-Life Crisis and Old Age in Tamara Jenkins' The Savages ; Susan Bainbrigge Chapter 11. Feminist Phenomenology and the Films of Sally Potter; Kate Ince Notes on Contributors; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 791.4309; Existentialism in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- History -- 20th century; Motion pictures -- History -- 21st century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857457301
• Related ISBNs: 9781782389033
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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