Existentialism and contemporary cinema : a Sartrean perspective /: a Sartrean perspective. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jean-Pierre Boulé and Enda McCaffrey.
• Other Names: Boulé, Jean-Pierre; McCaffrey, Enda
• Contents: Introduction / Jean-Pierre Boulé and Enda McCaffrey -- The call to freedom. Peter Weir's The Truman show and Sartrean freedom / Christopher Falzon -- Michael Haneke and the consequences of radical freedom / Kevin L. Stoehr -- Naked, bad faith and masculinity / Mark Stanton -- Pursuits of transcendence in The man who wasn't there / Tom Martin -- Lorna's silence: Sartre and the Dardenne Brothers / Sarah Cooper -- Films of situation. Being-Lost in translation / Michelle R. Darnell -- If I should wake before I die: existentialism as a political call to arms in The crying game / Tracey Nicholls -- Crimes of passion, freedom and a clash of Sartrean moralities in the Coen Brothers' No country for old men / Enda McCaffrey -- 'An act of confidence in the freedom of men': Jean-Paul Sartre and Ousmane Sembene / Patrick Williams -- Cédric Klapisch's The Spanish apartment and Russian dolls in Nausea's mirror / Jean-Pierre Boulé -- Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: the nauseous art of adaptation / Alistair Rolls.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 200 pages)
• Subjects: 791.43/684; Existentialism in motion pictures; Philosophy in motion pictures; ART -- Film & Video; PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference; PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Existentialism; Existentialism in motion pictures; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Philosophy; Philosophy in motion pictures; Electronic books; Philosophy; Influence
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857453211; 0857453211
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.