Introduction / Jean-Pierre Boulé and Ursula Tidd
Beauvoir's children: girlhood in Innocence / Emma Wilson
'Devenir Mere': trajectories of the maternal bond in recent films starring Isabelle Huppert / Ursula Tidd
Claire Denis's Chocolat and the Politics of desire / Jean-Pierre Boulé
Revolutionary Road and The Second sex / Constance Mui and Julien Murphy
Simone de Beauvoir, melodrama and the ethics of transcendence / Linnell Secomb
La petite Jerusalem: freedom and ambiguity in the Paris banlieues / Claire Humphrey
'How am I not myself?': engaging ambiguity in David O. Russell's I Huckabees / Bradley Stephens
Encounters with the 'third age': Benguigui's Inch'Allah dimanche and Beauvoir's Old age / Michelle Royer
Eastwood reading Beauvoir reading Eastwood: ageing and combative self-assertion in Gran Torino and old age / Oliver Davis
Les Belles images? mid-life crisis and old age in Tamara Jenkins' The savages / Susan Bainbrigge
Feminist phenomenology and the films of Sally Potter / Kate Ince.
Existentialism and contemporary cinema : a Beauvoirian perspective. ISBN 9780857457295. Published by Berghahn Books in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.