Simone 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. The authors analyse a range of films, from directors including Claire Denis, Michael Haneke, Lucille Hadzihalilovic, Sam Mendes, and Sally Potter, by drawing from Beauvoirs key works such asThe Second Sex(1949),The Ethics of Ambiguity(1947) andOld Age(1970).
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Jean-Pierre Boul? and Ursula Tidd
Chapter 1.Beauvoirs Children: Girlhood inInnocence
Emma Wilson
Chapter 2.Devenir M?re: Trajectories of the Maternal Bond in Recent Films starring Isabelle Huppert
Ursula Tidd
Chapter 3.Claire DenissChocolatand the Politics of Desire
Jean-Pierre Boul?
Chapter 4.Revolutionary RoadandThe Second Sex
Constance Mui and Julien Murphy
Chapter 5.Simone de Beauvoir, Melodrama and the Ethics of Transcendence
Linnell Secomb
Chapter 6.La Petite J?rusalem:Freedom and Ambiguity in the Parisbanlieues
Claire Humphrey
Chapter 7.How Am I Not Myself? Engaging Ambiguity in David O. RussellsI e Huckabees
Bradley Stephens
Chapter 8.Encounters with the Third Age: BenguiguisInchAllah dimancheand BeauvoirsOld Age
Michelle Royer
Chapter 9. Eastwood Reading Beauvoir Reading Eastwood: Ageing and Combative lÓR
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