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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).
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.
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).
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.
Published on the occasion of Sartre's Centenary, this book helps to
understand the man behind the work, offering a psycho-social
analysis of Jean-Paul Sartre with an emphasis on his masculinity.
It sets out to contextualize Sartre in terms of his psycho-sexual
formation and processes of self-constitution in view of his
childhood. The main period under detailed study is 1905-1945,
before Sartre became the Sartre. It concentrates on his early
childhood, his teenage years in La Rochelle, the years at the Ecole
Normale, and the first few years of his adulthood, with specific
attention on the war years. An analysis of Sartre's relationships
follows, with Simone de Beauvoir and other women and men (including
love and sex), before a postscript covering the period 1973-1980.
This essay is not a reductive account. It tells the story of
Jean-Paul Sartre, from the inside out, so that the achievements of
one of the major intellectuals of the 20th Century can be measured
against his own internal struggles.
Published on the occasion of Sartre's Centenary, this book helps to
understand the man behind the work, offering a psycho-social
analysis of Jean-Paul Sartre with an emphasis on his masculinity.
It sets out to contextualize Sartre in terms of his psycho-sexual
formation and processes of self-constitution in view of his
childhood. The main period under detailed study is 1905-1945,
before Sartre became the Sartre. It concentrates on his early
childhood, his teenage years in La Rochelle, the years at the Ecole
Normale, and the first few years of his adulthood, with specific
attention on the war years. An analysis of Sartre's relationships
follows, with Simone de Beauvoir and other women and men (including
love and sex), before a postscript covering the period 1973-1980.
This essay is not a reductive account. It tells the story of
Jean-Paul Sartre, from the inside out, so that the achievements of
one of the major intellectuals of the 20th Century can be measured
against his own internal struggles.
Drawing attention to the existence in France of an AIDS literature
from 1985 to 1988, before AIDS became either a widly recognised
genre or a culturally influential form of writing, this
predominately critical literary study is informed by gender studies
and psychoanalytic criticism in its readings of individual texts.
Interwoven with contextual information, the book provides
sympathetic readings of courageous writers who have been unfairly
criticised, like Dreuilhe, or forgotten like Simonin, or like Aron,
never properly understood.
Jean-Paul Sartre: Mind and Body, Word and Deed celebrates Sartre's
polyvalence with an examination of Sartrean philosophy, literature,
and politics. In four distinct yet related sections, twelve
scholars from three continents examine Sartre's thought, writing
and action over his long career. "Sartre and the Body" reappraises
Sartre's work in dialogue with other philosophers past and present,
including Maine de Biran, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Didier Anzieu.
"Sartre and Time" offers a first-hand account by Michel Contat of
Sartre and Beauvoir working together, and a "philosophy in
practice" analysis by Francois Noudelmann. "Ideology and Politics"
uses Sartrean notions of commitment and engagement to address
modern and contemporary politics, including insights into Castro,
De Gaulle, Sarkozy and Obama. Finally, an important but neglected
episode of Sartre's life-the visit that he and Beauvoir made to
Japan in 1966-is narrated with verve and humour by Professor Suzuki
Michihiko, who first met Sartre during that visit and remained in
touch subsequently. Taken together, these twelve chapters make a
strong case for the continued relevance of Sartre today.
In this first edited collection in English on the Moroccan author,
Abdellah Taia's Queer Migrations frames the distinctiveness of his
migration by considering current scholarship in French and
Francophone studies, post-colonial studies, affect theory, queer
theory, and language and sexuality. In contrast to critics that
consider Taia to immigrate and integrate successfully to France as
a writer and intellectual, Provencher and Bouamer argue that the
author's writing is replete with elements of constant migration,
"comings and goings," cruel optimism, flexible accumulation of
language over borders, transnational filiations, and new forms of
belonging and memory making across time and space. At the same
time, his constantly evolving identity emerges in many non-places,
defined as liminal and border narrative spaces where unexpected and
transgressive new forms of transgressive filial belonging emerge
without completely shedding shame, mourning, or melancholy.
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