Ambiguous cinema : from Simone de Beauvoir to feminist film-phenomenology / Kelli Fuery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fuery, Kelli, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986--Influence.

Beauvoir, Simone de.

Feminism and motion pictures.

Ambiguity in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 258 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Utilises women's independent cinema to explore Simone de Beauvoir's notion of ambiguity in film experience.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Abbreviations of Featured Works by Simone de Beauvoir

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Beauvoir’s Ambiguity, Cinema and Feminist Phenomenology

2. Must We Burn Cavani? Moral Ambiguity in The Night Porter

3. Moments of Moral Choice in Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace

4. Habit the Cinematic Encounter: Cheryl Dunye and the ‘Dunyementaries’

5. A New (Ethical) Face on Love: Bad Faith and Claire Denis’s Let the Sunshine In

6. A Cinema of the Borderlands: Lucrecia Martel’s Zama

7. Sensuous Co-Performance: Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin and Beauvoir’s Aesthetic Attitude

8. Femme Desire and the Reciprocal Gaze in Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Conclusion: Make Your Choice – Ambiguity Beyond Beauvoir

Filmography

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Nov 2022).

ISBN:

1-3995-1855-0

1-3995-0425-8

OCLC:

1336497703