ReFocus: The Films of Michel Gondry

Marcelline Block, Jennifer Kirby (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2020
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-5601-2 (ISBN)

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In this book, a range of international scholars offers a comprehensive study of this significant and influential figure, covering his French and English-language films and videos, and framing Gondry as a transnational auteur whose work provides insight into both French/European and American cinematic and cultural identity.

The acclaimed French auteur behind the mind-bending modern classic Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Michel Gondry has directed a number of innovative, ground-breaking films and documentaries, episodes of the acclaimed television show Kidding and some of the most influential music videos in the history of the medium. In this collection, a range of international scholars offers a comprehensive study of this significant and influential figure, covering his French and English-language films and videos, and framing Gondry as a transnational auteur whose work provides insight into both French/European and American cinematic and cultural identity. With detailed case studies of films such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), The Science of Sleep (2006), Microbe & Gasoline (2015) and Mood Indigo (2013), this collection will appeal to readers interested in the various media in which Gondry has worked, and in contemporary post-modern French and American cinema in general.

Marcelline Block is Adjunct Professor at LIM College, New York Dr Jennifer Kirby is a Senior Tutor at Massey University

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments

Introduction: Michel Gondry as Trans-cultural Auteur - Marcelline Block and Jennifer Kirby

Part I Dreams, Play and Whimsy

1. "We Can Change the Whole Narrative": Crafting Play and Nostalgia in Michel Gondry’s The Science of Sleep and Mood Indigo - Danica van de Velde

2. In Dreams and in Love There are no Impossibilities:　Michel Gondry’s Cinema and the Aesthetics of the Oneiric - Bruno Surace

3. I Am Collecting Beautiful Objects: Michel Gondry’s Taxidermy of Emotions - Jenny Pyke

4. The Cost of Whimsy in Mood Indigo and The Grand Budapest Hotel - Mica Hilson

Part II French Cinema and Identity

5. L’amour fou revisited: The surrealist poetics of Michel Gondry - Sian Mitchell

6. On the Road to Adulthood: Microbe & Gasoline and The French Road Movie - Marcelline Block and Jennifer Kirby

Part III Narrative and Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind

7. Rethinking Romantic Comedy through the Art Film: Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Raffaele Ariano

8. Apocalypse Ever After: Lifted Veils and Transcendent Time in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Sheheryar B. Sheikh

Part IV Gondry In/On America

9. The Reel and Surreal of Race in America: Michel Gondry and the African-American Identity Crisis of Dave Chappelle - Monique Taylor

10. Memory à la Americana: From Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to Be Kind Rewind - Yu-Yun Hsieh

11. Playing with Superheroes: Genre, Aesthetics and Deconstruction in The Green Hornet - Jennifer Kirby

Part V Multi-Media: Music Video, Documentary, Television

12. "It Would not be Just Be Visual, it Could Have Words and a Story": Performance and Narrative in the Music Video Oeuvre of Michel Gondry - Daniel Klug

13. Death and Pickles: Thinking Through Gondry’s Neighborhood - Lisa DeTora

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	25.09.2020
Reihe/Serie	ReFocus: The International Directors Series
Zusatzinfo	7 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	508 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-5601-4 / 1474456014
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-5601-2 / 9781474456012
Zustand	Neuware