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Title:

ReFocus : the films of Michel Gondry / edited by Marcelline Block and Jennifer Kirby.

Publisher:

Edinburgh University Press Ltd,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xi, 227 pages: illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Gondry, Michel--Criticism and interpretation.
Gondry, Michel.
Motion picture producers and directors--France--Criticism and interpretation.
Motion picture producers and directors.
France.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Other Authors:

Block, Marcelline, editor.
Kirby, Jennifer, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

13. Death and Pickles: Thinking Through Gondry's Neighborhood / Lisa DeTora. Part I. Dreams, Play and Whimsy. $g 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.

Summary:

"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" -- Publisher.

Series:

ReFocus. The international directors series

ISBN:

9781474456012
1474456014

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1136962496

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)