Overview

Simone de Beauvoir’s work has not often been associated with film studies, which appears paradoxical when it is recognized that she was the first feminist thinker to inaugurate the concept of the gendered ‘othering’ gaze. This book is an attempt to redress this balance and reopen the dialogue between Beauvoir’s writings and film studies. The authors analyse a range of films, from directors including Claire Denis, Michael Haneke, Lucille Hadzihalilovic, Sam Mendes, and Sally Potter, by drawing from Beauvoir’s key works such as The Second Sex (1949), The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947) and Old Age (1970).

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Author:   Jean-Pierre Boulé ,  Ursula Tidd
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9780857457295

ISBN 10:   0857457292
Pages:   198
Publication Date:   01 September 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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 Notes on Contributors Index

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This book makes an original and valuable contribution to film studies and to French studies, the latter both in the sense that it develops Beauvoir studies in an interesting direction ... Its intellectual agenda is innovative and worthwhile - Beauvoir liked cinema and recognised its liberatory potential: the usefulness of her work for analysis of cinema is thoroughly and diversely demonstrated. * Diana Holmes, University of Leeds This is an excellent volume of essays which addresses a relatively neglected topic and conceptual approach, and is of relevance across a range of interrelated areas, specifically film studies, French studies, existentialist studies, philosophy, modern cultural and media studies. * Edmund Smyth, Manchester Metropolitan University

Author Information

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).

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