Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema

A Sartrean Perspective
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78238-494-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 312 g

At the heart of this volume is the assertion that Sartrean existentialism, most prominent in the 1940s, particularly in France, is still relevant as a way of interpreting the world today. Film, by reflecting philosophical concerns in the actions and choices of characters, continues and extends a tradition in which art exemplifies the understanding of existentialist philosophy. In a scholarly yet accessible style, the contributors exploit the rich interplay between Sartre’s philosophy, plays and novels, and a number of contemporary films including No Country for Old Men, Lost in Translation and The Truman Show, with film-makers including the Dardenne brothers, Michael Haneke, and Mike Leigh. This volume will be of interest to students who are coming to Sartre’s work for the first time and to those who would like to read films within an existentialist perspective.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boulé, Jean-Pierre

Mccaffrey, Enda

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Existenzphilosophie, Lebensphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Jean-Pierre Boulé and Enda McCaffrey

PART I: THE CALL TO FREEDOM

Chapter 1. Peter Weir’s The Truman Show and SartreanFreedom

Christopher Falzon

Chapter 2. Michael Haneke and the Consequences of Radical Freedom

Kevin L. Stoehr

Chapter 3. Naked, Bad Faith and Masculinity

Mark Stanton

Chapter 4. Pursuits of Transcendence in The Man Who Wasn’t There

Tom Martin

Chapter 5. Lorna’s Silence: Sartre and the Dardenne Brothers

Sarah Cooper

PART II: FILMS OF SITUATION

Chapter 6. Being–Lost in Translation

Michelle R. Darnell

Chapter 7. If I Should Wake Before I Die: Existentialism as a Political Call to Arms in The Crying Game

Tracey Nicholls

Chapter 8. Crimes of Passion, Freedom and a Clash of Sartrean Moralities in the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men

Enda McCaffrey

Chapter 9. ‘An Act of Confidence in the Freedom of Men’: Jean-Paul Sartre and Ousmane Sembene

Patrick Williams

Chapter 10. Cédric Klapisch’s The Spanish Apartment and Russian Dolls in Nausea’s Mirror

Jean-Pierre Boulé

Chapter 11. Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet: The Nauseous Art of Adaptation

Alistair Rolls

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mccaffrey, Enda
Enda McCaffrey is Professor of French Theory and Culture at Nottingham Trent University. He is the author of a number of books including The Gay Republic: Sexuality, Citizenship and Subversion in France (2005) and The Return of Religion in France: From Democratisation to Postmetaphysics (2009). He is has recently completed a new monograph entitled Bodies Without Organs: French Theory and Homosexuality (2015)

Boulé, Jean-Pierre
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. He is coediting with Benedict O’Donohoe, Jean-Paul Sartre: Mind and Body, Word and Deed (2011) and preparing with Ursula Tidd a companion volume, Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema. A Beauvoirian Perspective (2013).

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. He is coediting with Benedict O’Donohoe, Jean-Paul Sartre: Mind and Body, Word and Deed (2011) and preparing with Ursula Tidd a companion volume, Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema. A Beauvoirian Perspective (2013).