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    EXISTENTIALISM

    ND

    CONTEMPORARY CINEMA

    A Beauvoirian Perspective

    dited by

    Jean Pierre Boule and Ursula Tidd

    erghahn ooks

    New York

    Oxford

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    CONTENTS

    Acknowledgements ix

    Introduction 1

    Jean-Pierre Boule and Ursula Tidd

    Chapter

    1

    Beauvoir s Ch ildren: Girlhood in

    Innocence

    17

    Emma Wilson

    Chapter

    2 DevenirM ere :

    Trajectories of the M aternal Bond in

    Recent Films starring Isabelle H up pe rt 33

    Ursula Tidd

    Ch apter 3 Claire Den is s Chocolat and the Politics of Desire 53

    Jean-Pierre Boule

    Chapter 4

    Revolutionary Road

    and

    The Second Sex

    67

    Constance Mu i and Julien M urphy

    Ch apter 5 Simone de Beauvoir, M elodrama and the Ethics of

    Transcendence 81

    Linnell Secomb

    Chapter 6 La Petite Jerusalem: Freedom and Ambiguity in the

    Paris

    banlieues

    97

    Claire Humphrey

    Chap ter 7 H ow Am I N ot Myself? E ngaging Am biguity in

    David O. Russell s / V

    Huckabees

    109

    Bradley Stephens

    Cha pter 8 Enc ounters with the T hird Age : Benguigui s

    Inch Allah dim anche and Beauvoir s Old Age 123

    Michelle Royer

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    viii Contents

    Chapter 9 Eastwood Reading Beauvoir Reading Eastwood: Ageing

    and Combative Self-Assertion in

    GranTorino

    and

    Old Age

    135

    Oliver Davis

    Chapter 10

    Les elles Images}

    Mid-Life Crisis and Old Age in

    Tam ara Jenkins The

    Savages

    149

    Susan Bainbrigge

    Chapter 11 Fem inist Phe nom enology and the Films of Sally Po tter 161

    Kate Ince

    No tes on Con tributors 175

    Index 179