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 dialogue between Beauvoir’s writings and film studies. The authors analyse a range of films, from directors including Claire Denis, Michael Haneke, Lucille Hadzihalilovic, Sam Mendes, and Sally Potter, by drawing from Beauvoir’s key works such as The Second Sex (1949), The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947) and Old Age (1970).
Table of Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Jean-Pierre Boulé and Ursula Tidd
Chapter 1. Beauvoir’s Children: Girlhood in Innocence
Emma Wilson
Chapter 2. ‘Devenir Mère’: Trajectories of the Maternal Bond in Recent Films starring Isabelle Huppert
Ursula Tidd
Chapter 3. Claire Denis’s Chocolat and the Politics of Desire
Jean-Pierre Boulé
Chapter 4. Revolutionary Road and The Second Sex
Constance Mui and Julien Murphy
Chapter 5. Simone de Beauvoir, Melodrama and the Ethics of Transcendence
Linnell Secomb
Chapter 6. La Petite Jérusalem: Freedom and Ambiguity in the Paris banlieues
Claire Humphrey
Chapter 7. ‘How Am I Not Myself?’ Engaging Ambiguity in David O. Russell’s I ♥ Huckabees
Bradley Stephens
Chapter 8. Encounters with the ‘Third Age’: Benguigui’s Inch’Allah dimanche and Beauvoir’s Old Age
Michelle Royer
Chapter 9. Eastwood Reading Beauvoir Reading Eastwood: Ageing and Combative Self-Assertion in Gran Torino and Old Age
Oliver Davis
Chapter 10. Les Belles Images? Mid-Life Crisis and Old Age in Tamara Jenkins’ The Savages
Susan Bainbrigge
Chapter 11. Feminist Phenomenology and the Films of Sally Potter
Kate Ince
Notes on Contributors
Index
About the author
Ursula Tidd is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Manchester. She is the author of three monographs: Simone de Beauvoir, Gender and Testimony (1999); Simone de Beauvoir, Routledge ‘Critical Thinkers’ series (2004) and Simone de Beauvoir Reaktion ‘Critical Lives’ series (2009) as well as articles and chapters on Beauvoir’s autobiographies, fiction, and philosophy. She is currently writing a monograph on the Francophone Spanish Holocaust writer Jorge Semprún (forthcoming with Legenda/MHRA 2013).
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