Existentialist Cinema
Title | Existentialist Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | W. Pamerleau |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2009-03-31 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0230235468 |
An exploration of the relationship between cinema and existentialism, in terms of their mutual ability to describe the human condition, this book combines analyses of topics in the philosophy of film with an exploration of specific existentialist themes expressed in the films of Fellini, Bergman and Woody Allen, among others.
Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema
Title | Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-Pierre Boulé |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 2012-09-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0857457306 |
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).
Movies with Meaning
Title | Movies with Meaning PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Shaw |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2017-06-29 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1474299288 |
This book pairs close readings of some of the classic writings of existentialist philosophers with interpretations of films that reveal striking parallels to each of those texts, demonstrating their respective philosophies in action. Individual chapters include significant excerpts from the original texts being discussed and illustrated. Pairings cover Schopenhauer and Waking Life, Stirner and Hud, Kierkegaard and Winter Light, Nietzsche and The Fountainhead, Heidegger, Blade Runner and The Thin Red Line, Camus, Leaving Las Vegas and Missing, Sartre, Husbands and Wives, and Michael Collins, de Beauvoir and Revolutionary Road, and Foucault and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Movies with Meaning offers a clear and insightful examination of the relationships between existential philosophers and film, providing both digests of their most significant texts and cinematic illustrations of what each had in mind. For the first time in one place, this book analyses the implications for film of the perspectives of a wide array of the most significant existentialist thinkers. Organized chronologically, like most existentialism anthologies, this is an ideal textbook for an intermediate level existentialism course, or as a companion to a selection of primary texts.
Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema
Title | Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-Pierre Boulé |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 199 |
Release | 2012-09-15 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 0857457292 |
This is a 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.
Existentialism, Film Noir, and Hard-Boiled Fiction
Title | Existentialism, Film Noir, and Hard-Boiled Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Cambria Press |
Pages | 218 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1621969282 |
Existentialism and Social Engagement in the Films of Michael Mann
Title | Existentialism and Social Engagement in the Films of Michael Mann PDF eBook |
Author | Vincent M. Gaine |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2011-10-27 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0230348440 |
Michael Mann's films receive a detailed analysis as existential dramas, including Heat, Collateral , The Last of the Mohicans and Public Enemies. The book demonstrates that Mann's films perform critical engagement with existentialism, illustrating the problems and opportunities of living according to this philosophy.
The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre
Title | The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-Paul Sartre |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 515 |
Release | 2003-05-27 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1400076323 |
This unique selection presents the essential elements of Sartre's lifework -- organized systematically and made available in one volume for the first time in any language.