Existentialism and contemporary cinema : a Sartrean perspective / edited by Jean-Pierre Boulé and Enda McCaffrey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boulé, Jean-Pierre.

McCaffrey, Enda.

Series:

Berghahn on film

Berghahnonfilm

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.

Existentialism in motion pictures.

Philosophy in motion pictures.

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980--Philosophy.

Sartre, Jean-Paul.

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980--Influence.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

vi, 200 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.

Summary:

This book, declare the editors (both of Nottingham Trent U., England), is an attempt to revalidate the existentialist philosophical project of Jean-Paul Sartre through its application to film. They present 11 chapters exploring existentialist themes in films that have been chosen for their relative contemporaneousness and international provenance. The contributions have been grouped into two sections that, broadly speaking, address the freedom that arises out of human subjectivity in existentialist philosophy and the link between individual subjectivity/freedom and collective responsibility that is inherent in human situatedness. Films discussed include Peter Weir's The Truman Show, the corpus of Michael Haneke, Mike Leigh's Naked, the Coen Broethers' The Man Who Wasn't There and No Country for Old Men, the Dardenne Brothers' Lorna's Silence, Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation, Neil Jordan's The Crying Game, Ousmane Sembene's Moolaade, Cedric Klapisch's The Spanish Apartment and Russian Dolls, and Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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.

Notes:

"Berghahnonfilm" [appears Berghahn and film in white, on in green with no space between words])--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780857453204

0857453203

9780857453211

0857453211

OCLC:

714734872