Existentialism and contemporary cinema: a Sartrean perspective

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Introduction / Jean-Pierre Boulé and Enda McCaffrey -- The call to freedom. Peter Weir's The Truman show and Sartrean freedom / Christopher Falzon -- Michael Haneke and the consequences of radical freedom / Kevin L. Stoehr -- Naked, bad faith and masculinity / Mark Stanton -- Pursuits of transcendence in The man who wasn't there / Tom Martin -- Lorna's silence: Sartre and the Dardenne brothers / Sarah Cooper -- Films of situation. Being -- Lost in translation / Michelle R. Darnell -- If I should wake before I die: existentialism as a political call to arms in The crying game / Tracey Nicholls -- Crimes of passion, freedom and a clash of Sartrean moralities in the Coen brothers' No country for old men / Enda McCaffrey -- 'An act of confidence in the freedom of men': Jean-Paul Sartre and Ousmane Sembene / Patrick Williams -- Cédric Klapisch's The Spanish apartment and Russian dolls in Nausea's mirror / Jean-Pierre Boulé -- Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: the nauseous art of adaptation / Alistair Rolls.