Refocus: The Films of Michel Gondry

ISBN-13: 9781474456029 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 240 str.

Marcelline Block; Jennifer Kirby

Spis treści

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