ReFocus : : The Films of Michel Gondry / / Marcelline Block, Jennifer Kirby.
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 filmmak...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | ReFocus: The International Directors Series : RFIDS
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 7 B/W illustrations |
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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