Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. PART I THE CALL TO FREEDOM
6. 1 PETER WEIR’S THE TRUMAN SHOW AND SARTREAN FREEDOM 17
7. 2 MICHAEL HANEKE AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF RADICAL FREEDOM 33
8. 3 NAKED, BAD FAITH AND MASCULINITY 47
9. 4 PURSUITS OF TRANSCENDENCE IN THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE 63
10. 5 LORNA’S SILENCE: SARTRE AND THE DARDENNE BROTHERS 79
11. PART II FILMS OF SITUATION
12. 6 BEING – LOST IN TRANSLATION 95
13. 7 IF I SHOULD WAKE BEFORE I DIE: EXISTENTIALISM AS A POLITICAL CALL TO ARMS IN THE CRYING GAME 111
14. 8 CRIMES OF PASSION, FREEDOM AND A CLASH OF SARTREAN MORALITIES IN THE COEN BROTHERS’ NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN 125
15. 9 ‘AN ACT OF CONFIDENCE IN THE FREEDOM OF MEN’: JEAN-PAUL SARTRE AND OUSMANE SEMBENE 143
16. 10 CÉDRIC KLAPISCH’S THE SPANISH APARTMENT AND RUSSIAN DOLLS IN NAUSEA’S MIRROR 157
17. 11 BAZ LUHRMANN’S WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S ROMEO + JULIET: THE NAUSEOUS ART OF ADAPTATION 175
18. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 191
19. INDEX 193