Introduction / Jean-Pierre Boulé and Ursula Tidd -- Beauvoir's children: girlhood in Innocence / Emma Wilson -- 'Devenir Mere': trajectories of the maternal bond in recent films starring Isabelle Huppert / Ursula Tidd -- Claire Denis's Chocolat and the Politics of desire / Jean-Pierre Boulé -- Revolutionary Road and The Second sex / Constance Mui and Julien Murphy -- Simone de Beauvoir, melodrama and the ethics of transcendence / Linnell Secomb -- La petite Jerusalem: freedom and ambiguity in the Paris banlieues / Claire Humphrey -- 'How am I not myself?': engaging ambiguity in David O. Russell's I Huckabees / Bradley Stephens -- Encounters with the 'third age': Benguigui's Inch'Allah dimanche and Beauvoir's Old age / Michelle Royer -- Eastwood reading Beauvoir reading Eastwood: ageing and combative self-assertion in Gran Torino and old age / Oliver Davis -- Les Belles images? mid-life crisis and old age in Tamara Jenkins' The savages / Susan Bainbrigge -- Feminist phenomenology and the films of Sally Potter / Kate Ince.
Purchased with funds from the Laurent Lesage Libraries Collection Endowment for French Continental Literature; 2012.
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