Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema
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491_9781782389033
The volume convincingly demonstrates the enduring value of Beauvoirs work, and makes a very distinctive contribution to contemporary French film studies. · Modern and Contemporary France[The editors] accomplish this genres most important task: framing the collection with an urgency that leads a reader to wonder how such a book didnt already exist...By the time Id reached the end of the book, I wanted more [which] suggests the strength of this book, its provocative existential claims a compelling reason for its own existence. · H-France ReviewThis collection of essays on the relationship between Simone de Beauvoirs philosophy and film studies is very welcome and long overdue... The book achieves the [editors] stated aim and demonstrates beyond question the potential for exciting and illuminating film thinking that lies in the bringing together of Beauvoirs work and cinema.... The alignment between Beauvoir and films may not always be so direct, but the possibilities for what the relationship might yield are excitingly indicated by this collection. · Journal of Contemporary European StudiesThis book makes an original and valuable contribution to film studies and to French studies ... . Its intellectual agenda is innovative and worthwhile. · Diana Holmes, University of LeedsThis is an excellent volume of essays which addresses a relatively neglected topic and conceptual approach, and is of relevance across a range of interrelated areas, specifically film studies, French studies, existentialist studies, philosophy, modern cultural and media studies. · Edmund Smyth, Manchester Metropolitan UniversitySimone de Beauvoirs 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 Beauvoirs writings and film studies.
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