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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Boulé, Jean-Pierre,; Cooper, Sarah,; Darnell, Michelle R.,; Falzon, Christopher,; Martin, Tom,; McCaffrey, Enda,; Nicholls, Tracey,; Rolls, Alistair,; Stanton, Mark,; Stoehr, Kevin L.,; Williams, Patrick,
• HerausgeberIn: Boulé, Jean-Pierre,; McCaffrey, Enda,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

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 tra...

Table of Contents

• 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