Existentialist cinema

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Part I. Setting the Stage: Theoretical Issues

1. Existentialism: An Overview of Important

Themes and Figures

S&ophi;ren Kierkegaard

Friedrich Nietzsche

Phenomenology

Jean-Paul Sartre

Simone de Beauvoir

Paul Tillich

2. Film as a Tool for PHilosophical Investigation

Theoretical versus personal approaches to existentialism

Can films philosophize?

Film and philosophical existentialism

Screening the human condition: The issue of realism

Meaningful movies

Conclusion

3. Film Realism and Narrative Identity

The problem with realism

Narrative and film

Narrative identity

The case for realism

Narrative existentialism

Conclusion

Part II. Meaningful Movies

4. Antonioni: Meaninglessness and the Modern World

Meaninglessness and the resistance of the world

L'avventura

L'eclisse

Rethinking radical freedom

Conclusion

5. Religiosity in the Films of Ingmar Bergman

Bergman's religious trilogy

The death of God

Religiosity without a religion

Conclusion

6. Rethinking Raskolnikov: Exploring Contemporary Ethical Challenges in the Films of Woody Allen

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Getting away with murder

Match Point

Meaningful alternatives

7. Authenticity in the Films of Federico Fellini

Attitude

Fellini's style

La dolce vita

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Conclusion

8. The Nietzschean Free Spirit in Dead Poets Society and Harold and Maude

Nietzsche's free spirit

Dead Poets Society

Harold and Maude

Conclusion

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index