Existentialism and contemporary cinema : a Sartrean perspective / edited by Jean-Pierre Bouland Enda McCaffrey. - New York : Berghahn Books, 2011. - vi, 200 p. ; 24 cm. - Berghahnonfilm. .

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Jean-Pierre Bouland 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 -- Cric Klapisch's The Spanish apartment and Russian dolls in Nausea's mirror / Jean-Pierre Boul-- Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: the nauseous art of adaptation / Alistair Rolls.

9780857453204 (hbk.) RM207.93 9780857453211 (ebook)


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


Existentialism in motion pictures.
Philosophy in motion pictures.