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Existentialism and contemporary cinema : a Beauvoirian perspective /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Boulé, Jean-Pierre, Tidd, Ursula
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Jean-Pierre Boulé and Ursula Tidd
  • Beauvoir's children: girlhood in Innocence / Emma Wilson
  • 'Devenir Mere': trajectories of the maternal bond in recent films starring Isabelle Huppert / Ursula Tidd
  • Claire Denis's Chocolat and the Politics of desire / Jean-Pierre Boulé
  • Revolutionary Road and The Second sex / Constance Mui and Julien Murphy
  • Simone de Beauvoir, melodrama and the ethics of transcendence / Linnell Secomb
  • La petite Jerusalem: freedom and ambiguity in the Paris banlieues / Claire Humphrey
  • 'How am I not myself?': engaging ambiguity in David O. Russell's I Huckabees / Bradley Stephens
  • Encounters with the 'third age': Benguigui's Inch'Allah dimanche and Beauvoir's Old age / Michelle Royer
  • Eastwood reading Beauvoir reading Eastwood: ageing and combative self-assertion in Gran Torino and old age / Oliver Davis
  • Les Belles images? mid-life crisis and old age in Tamara Jenkins' The savages / Susan Bainbrigge
  • Feminist phenomenology and the films of Sally Potter / Kate Ince.