Ambiguous Cinema: From Simone de Beauvoir to Feminist Film-Phenomenology

Simone de Beauvoir’s notion of ambiguity became a cornerstone of her philosophy and influenced a radical rethinking of freedom well into the twenty—first century. In Ambiguous Cinema, Fuery examines Beauvoir’s notion of ambiguity in relation to film experience, exploring both the legacies and limits of her existentialist ethics through a range of films by independent women filmmakers, including Joanna Hogg, Liliana Cavani, Debra Granik, Cheryl Dunye, Claire Denis, Lucrecia Martel, Lynne Ram...