Existentialism and contemporary cinema : a Sartrean perspective /

'[This volume] will provide a useful tool, in particular for students seeking to learn about Sartre and existentialism but also for students exploring the application of philosophy to the understanding of cinema.' Douglas Morrey, University of Warwick. At the heart of this volume is the as...

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Other Authors: Boulé, Jean-Pierre, McCaffrey, Enda
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Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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