| Description |
vi, 200 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Berghahn on film
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| Note |
"Berghahnonfilm" [appears Berghahn and film in white, on in green with no space between words])--Cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Jean-Pierre Boule and 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 -- Cedric Klapisch's The Spanish apartment and Russian dolls in Nausea's mirror / Jean-Pierre Boule -- Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: the nauseous art of adaptation / Alistair Rolls. |
| Subject |
Existentialism in motion pictures.
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Philosophy in motion pictures.
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Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980 -- Philosophy.
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Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980 -- Influence.
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| Added Author |
Boule, Jean-Pierre.
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McCaffrey, Enda.
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| ISBN |
9780857453204 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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0857453203 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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