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3 Claire Denis’s Chocolat and the Politics of Desire
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Introduction 1
- 1 Beauvoir’s Children: Girlhood in Innocence 17
- 2 ‘Devenir Mère’: Trajectories of the Maternal Bond in Recent Films starring Isabelle Huppert 33
- 3 Claire Denis’s Chocolat and the Politics of Desire 53
- 4 Revolutionary Road and The Second Sex 67
- 5 Simone de Beauvoir, Melodrama and the Ethics of Transcendence 81
- 6 La Petite Jérusalem: Freedom and Ambiguity in the Paris Banlieues 97
- 7 ‘How Am I Not Myself?’ Engaging Ambiguity in David O. Russell’s I Huckabees 109
- 8 Encounters with the ‘Third Age’: Benguigui’s Inch’Allah Dimanche and Beauvoir’s Old Age 123
- 9 Eastwood Reading Beauvoir Reading Eastwood: Ageing and Combative Self-Assertion in Gran Torino and Old Age 135
- 10 Les Belles Images? Mid-Life Crisis and Old Age in Tamara Jenkins’ The Savages 149
- 11 Feminist Phenomenology and the Films of Sally Potter 161
- Notes on Contributors 175
- Index 179
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Introduction 1
- 1 Beauvoir’s Children: Girlhood in Innocence 17
- 2 ‘Devenir Mère’: Trajectories of the Maternal Bond in Recent Films starring Isabelle Huppert 33
- 3 Claire Denis’s Chocolat and the Politics of Desire 53
- 4 Revolutionary Road and The Second Sex 67
- 5 Simone de Beauvoir, Melodrama and the Ethics of Transcendence 81
- 6 La Petite Jérusalem: Freedom and Ambiguity in the Paris Banlieues 97
- 7 ‘How Am I Not Myself?’ Engaging Ambiguity in David O. Russell’s I Huckabees 109
- 8 Encounters with the ‘Third Age’: Benguigui’s Inch’Allah Dimanche and Beauvoir’s Old Age 123
- 9 Eastwood Reading Beauvoir Reading Eastwood: Ageing and Combative Self-Assertion in Gran Torino and Old Age 135
- 10 Les Belles Images? Mid-Life Crisis and Old Age in Tamara Jenkins’ The Savages 149
- 11 Feminist Phenomenology and the Films of Sally Potter 161
- Notes on Contributors 175
- Index 179