ReFocus : the films of Michel Gondry /: the films of Michel Gondry. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Films of Michel Gondry
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Marcelline Block and Jennifer Kirby.
• Editors: Block, Marcelline; Kirby, Jennifer
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 227 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 791.4302/33092; Motion picture producers and directors -- France -- Criticism and interpretation; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production; Electronic books; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474456012; 1474456014; 9781474456036; 1474456030; 9781474456043; 1474456049
• Related ISBNs: 9781474456012
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.