ReFocus : : The Films of Michel Gondry / / Marcelline Block, Jennifer Kirby.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Block, Marcelline,; Kirby, Jennifer,
• MitwirkendeR: Ariano, Raffaele,; Block, Marcelline,; DeTora, Lisa,; Hilson, Mica,; Hsieh, Yu-Yun,; Kirby, Jennifer,; Klug, Daniel,; Mitchell, Sian,; Pyke, Jenny,; Sheikh, Sheheryar B.,; Surace, Bruno,; Taylor, Monique,; Velde, Danica van de,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: ReFocus: The International Directors Series : RFIDS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 7 B/W illustrations

Examines the work of the French film and music video director, Michel GondryExplores a range of complex works by Michel Gondry, examining significant themes throughout his filmography including surrealism, adaptation, memory, dreams, play and African-American identityCompares Gondry to other filmmakers including Wes Anderson and Jean Vigo, allowing for an understanding of how Gondry’s films might compare with both his global contemporaries and his predecessors in French and international cinemaDemonstrates how Gondry’s work in narrative film, documentary and music video represents significant innovation in narrative, visual aesthetic and genreThe acclaimed French auteur behind the mind-bending modern classic Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Michel Gondry has directed a number of innovative, ground-breaking films and documentaries, episodes of the acclaimed television show Kidding and some of the most influential music videos in the history of the medium. 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. With detailed case studies of films such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), The Science of Sleep (2006), Microbe & Gasoline (2015) and Mood Indigo (2013), this collection will appeal to readers interested in the various media in which Gondry has worked, and in contemporary post-modern French and American cinema in general.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Michel Gondry as Transcultural Auteur -- 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 -- 2 In Dreams and in Love There are No Impossibilities: Michel Gondry’s Cinema and the Aesthetics of the Oneiric -- 3 I Am Collecting Beautiful Objects: Michel Gondry’s Taxidermy of Emotions -- 4 The Cost of Whimsy in Mood Indigo and The Grand Budapest Hotel -- Part II French Cinema and Identity -- 5 L’Amour fou Revisited: The Surrealist Poetics of Michel Gondry -- 6 On the Road to Adulthood: Microbe & Gasoline and the French Road Movie -- 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 -- 8 Apocalypse Ever After: Lifted Veils and Transcendent Time in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind -- 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 -- 10 Memory à la Americana: From Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to Be Kind Rewind -- 11 Playing with Superheroes: Genre, Aesthetics, and Deconstruction in The Green Hornet -- Part V Multi-Media: Music Video and Television -- 12 “It Would Not Be Just Visual, It Could Have Words and a Story”: Performance and Narrative in the Music Video Oeuvre of Michel Gondry -- 13 Death and Pickles: Thinking through Gondry’s Neighborhood -- Index