Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 Beauvoir’s Children: Girlhood in Innocence 17
6. 2 ‘Devenir Mère’: Trajectories of the Maternal Bond in Recent Films starring Isabelle Huppert 33
7. 3 Claire Denis’s Chocolat and the Politics of Desire 53
8. 4 Revolutionary Road and The Second Sex 67
9. 5 Simone de Beauvoir, Melodrama and the Ethics of Transcendence 81
10. 6 La Petite Jérusalem: Freedom and Ambiguity in the Paris Banlieues 97
11. 7 ‘How Am I Not Myself?’ Engaging Ambiguity in David O. Russell’s I Huckabees 109
12. 8 Encounters with the ‘Third Age’: Benguigui’s Inch’Allah Dimanche and Beauvoir’s Old Age 123
13. 9 Eastwood Reading Beauvoir Reading Eastwood: Ageing and Combative Self-Assertion in Gran Torino and Old Age 135
14. 10 Les Belles Images? Mid-Life Crisis and Old Age in Tamara Jenkins’ The Savages 149
15. 11 Feminist Phenomenology and the Films of Sally Potter 161
16. Notes on Contributors 175
17. Index 179