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Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema - A Sartrean Perspective
Editor: Jean-Pierre Boulé and Enda McCaffrey
Date Of Publication: Oct. 2011
ISBN13: 978-0-85745-320-4
ISBN: 0857453203
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.
Jean-Pierre Boulé is Professor of Contemporary French Studies at Nottingham Trent University in the UK, 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 UK Sartre Society and executive editor of Sartre Studies International. A volume entitled Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema: A Sartrean Perspective, co-edited with Enda McCaffrey, is published in 2011. He is preparing with Ursula Tidd a companion volume, Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema: A Beauvoirian Perspective (2013).
“[This volume] will provide a useful tool, in particular for students seeking to learn about Sartre and existentialism but also for students exploring the application of philosophy to the understanding of cinema.”
—Douglas Morrey, University of Warwick
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: THE CALL TO FREEDOM
Chapter 1. Peter Weir's The Truman Show and Sartrean Freedom
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
Jean-Paul Sartre: Mind and Body, Word and Deed
Editor: Jean-Pierre Boulé and Benedict O’Donohoe
Date Of Publication: Jul. 2011
ISBN13: 978-1-4438-2949-6
ISBN: 1-4438-2949-8
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 François 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.
Jean-Pierre Boulé is Professor of Contemporary French Studies at Nottingham Trent University in the UK, 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 UK Sartre Society and executive editor of Sartre Studies International. A volume entitled Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema: A Sartrean Perspective, co-edited with Enda McCaffrey, is published in 2011. He is preparing with Ursula Tidd a companion volume, Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema: A Beauvoirian Perspective (2013).
Benedict O’Donohoe is Head of Modern Languages at the University of Sussex in the UK. He has spoken and published widely on Sartre and Camus. He is the author of Sartre’s Theatre: Acts for Life (Peter Lang, 2005), editor of Jean-Paul Sartre, Les Jeux sont faits (Routledge, 1990), and co-editor of Sartre’s Second Century (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009). He has also published more than a score of essays in Australia, Canada, France, Japan, the UK and the USA. He is a former Secretary and President of the UK Sartre Society and is currently UK Reviews Editor of Sartre Studies International.
“This is an impressive collection of essays by two of the UK’s most dedicated Sartre scholars. The questions of embodied consciousness and of words and/as actions are both timely and perennial; that is to say, urgent, in view of the rapid advances of neuroscience, and yet amongst the ‘universal’ issues that philosophy is constantly trying to come to terms with. This work represents a substantial contribution from Boulé and O’Donohoe.”
—Christina Howells, Professor of French, Wadham College, Oxford.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Sartre and the Body
Chapter 1. Sartre's Treatment of the Body in Being and Nothingness:
The "Double Sensation"
Dermot Moran
Chapter 2. Living and Knowing Pain: Sartre's Engagement with Maine de Biran
Michael Gillan Peckitt
Chapter 3. Jean-Paul Sartre and Didier Anzieu: Consensuality
Naomi Segal
Chapter 4. "The Childhood of a Leader" Revisited: Salauds and Moustaches
Gary Cox
Part II: Sartre and Time
Chapter 5. Sartre's Timetable
François Noudelmann
Chapter 6. How Sartre and Beauvoir Worked Together
Michel Contat
Part III: Sartre: Ideology and Politics
Chapter 7. France and Cuba, Castro and De Gaulle: Revisiting Sartre's
"Ouragan sur le Sucre"
John Ireland
Chapter 8. What Can Philosophers Teach Politicians?
Jean-Pierre Boulé
Chapter 9. Sartre's Concept of Man: Existentialism and Feminism
Sawada Nao
Chapter 10. Murakami, Obama, Sarkozy: What is an Intellectual?
Benedict O'Donohoe
Part IV: Sartre in Japan
Chapter 11. How to Welcome an Intellectual Superstar: Sartre and the Japanese
Press in 1966
Suzuki Masamichi
Chapter 12. An Intellectual Star Remembered: Sartre's 1966 Visit to Japan
Suzuki Michihiko with Sawada Nao
Contributors