Refocus: The Films of Spike Jonze

ISBN-13: 9781474447652 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 264 str.

WILKINS KIM

Spis treści

List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Jonze Between the Lines, Kim Wilkins and Wyatt Moss-Wellington; PART I: Authorship and Originality; 1: Adaptation in Adaptation in Adaptation in Adaptation, Wyatt Moss-Wellington; 2: “I’ll eat you up I love you so.” Adaptation, Authorship, and Intermediality in Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are, Eddie Falvey; 3: Converging Indiewood: Spike Jonze, Propaganda Films and the Emergence of Specialty Film Giant USA Films, Yannis Tzioumakis; PART II: Psychology, Identity and Crisis; 4: “You can be John Malkovich.” Celebrity, Absurdity, and Convention in Being John Malkovich, Kim Wilkins; 5: “I can’t sleep. I’m losing my hair. I’m fat and repulsive.” Crises of Masculinity and Artistry in Spike Jonze’s Adaptation, Julie Levinson; 5.5: Spike Jonze’s Screenwriting: The Screenplay, Wyatt Moss-Wellington; PART III: Her; 7: “Are These Feelings Even Real?” Intimacy and Authenticity in Spike Jonze’s Her, Peter Marks; 8: Machinic Empathy and Mental Health: The Relational Ethics of Machine Empathy and Artificial Intelligence in Her, Frances Shaw; 9: The “tedious yammering of selves”: The End of Intimacy in Spike Jonze’s Her; PART IV: Beyond the Feature; 10: Spike Jonze Shorts Stories, Cynthia Felando; 11: Spike Jonze, Propaganda/Satellite Films and Music Video Work: Talent Management and the Construction of an Indie-Auteur, Andrew Stubbs; 12: Spike Jonze’s Abbreviated Art of the Suburbs, Laurel Westrup