ReFocus : : The Films of Spike Jonze /

ReFocus : : The Films of Spike Jonze / / Kim Wilkins, Wyatt Moss-Wellington.

Examines how the work of American filmmaker Spike Jonze crosses boundaries between genre entertainment and experimentalismRead the blog post An interview with Wyatt Moss-Wellington, author of ‘Narrative Humanism’ and co-editor of ‘ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze’Surveys the breadth of Jonze’s work...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
VerfasserIn:
Wilkins, Kim,
Moss-Wellington, Wyatt,
MitwirkendeR:
Falvey, Eddie,
Felando, Cynthia,
Levinson, Julie,
Marks, Peter,
Moss-Wellington, Wyatt,
Shaw, Frances,
Smith, Richard,
Stubbs, Andrew,
Tzioumakis, Yannis,
Westrup, Laurel,
Wilkins, Kim,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2019
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:ReFocus: The American Directors Series : RFADS
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 24 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Jonze Between the Lines
  • Part 1 Authorship and Originality
  • 1 Adaptation in Adaptation in Adaptation in Adaptation
  • 2 “I’ll eat you up I love you so”: Adaptation, Authorship, and Intermediality in Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are
  • 3 Converging Indiewood: Spike Jonze, Propaganda Films, and the Emergence of Specialty Film Giant USA Films
  • Part 2 Psychology, Identity, and Crisis
  • 4 “You can be John Malkovich”: Celebrity, Absurdity, and Convention in Being John Malkovich
  • 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
  • 5½ Spike Jonze’s Screenwriting: The Screenplay
  • Part 3 Her
  • 7 “Are these feelings even real?” Intimacy and Authenticity in Spike Jonze’s Her
  • 8 Machinic Empathy and Mental Health: The Relational Ethics of Machine Empathy and Artificial Intelligence in Her
  • 9 The “tedious yammering of selves”: The End of Intimacy in Spike Jonze’s Her
  • Part 4 Beyond the Feature
  • 10 Spike Jonze Shorts Stories
  • 11 Spike Jonze, Propaganda/Satellite Films, and Music Video Work: Talent Management and the Construction of an Indie-Auteur
  • 12 Spike Jonze’s Abbreviated Art of the Suburbs
  • Index

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