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Informationen zum Autor Jean-Pierre Boulé is Professor of Contemporary French Studies at Nottingham Trent University and the author of a number of books, notably on Sartre, including Sartre médiatique (1992) and Sartre, Self-Formation and Masculinities (2005). He is the co-founder of the U.K. Sartre Society and executive editor of Sartre Studies International . His most recent books include Jean-Paul Sartre: Mind and Body, Word and Deed, co-edited with Benedict O’Donohoe (2011) and a companion volume to the present one, Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema : A Sartrean Perspective , co-edited with Enda McCaffrey (2011). Ursula Tidd is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Manchester. She is the author of three monographs: Simone de Beauvoir, Gender and Testimony (1999); Simone de Beauvoir , Routledge ‘Critical Thinkers’ series (2004) and Simone de Beauvoir Reaktion ‘Critical Lives’ series (2009) as well as articles and chapters on Beauvoir’s autobiographies, fiction, and philosophy. She is currently writing a monograph on the Francophone Spanish Holocaust writer Jorge Semprún (forthcoming with Legenda/MHRA 2013). Klappentext Makes groundbreaking contribution to Beauvoir studies, applying the work of this innovative philosopher to contemporary screen culture Brings together international experts on Beauvoir and Cinema, who provide innovative existentialist readings of a variety of contemporary films from several continents International breadth of the volume demonstrates the extent to which "existential" themes transcend geographical location and historical time, continue to resonate with film directors in Europe and the USA and engage with enduring metaphysical questions about human existence Of interest to students who are coming to Beauvoir's work for the first time and to those who are seeking to read films within an existentialist perspective Zusammenfassung Simone de Beauvoir's work has not often been associated with film studies. This is paradoxical when it is recognized that she was the first feminist thinker to inaugurate the concept of the gendered "othering" gaze. Moreover! other concepts associated with Beauvoirian existentialism such as ambiguity! gendered alienation! situated freedom... Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements 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 ¿ 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 ...
