Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind / Andrew M. Butler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Butler, Andrew M., author.

Series:

BFI film classics.

BFI film classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (Motion picture).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (104 pages).

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

"Imagine you learn that your lover has had you erased from their memory and, in a moment of despair, you have your lover erased from your memory too. Imagine that as you lose your recollections of the bad times together, you realise that you don't want to forget them after all. That's the premise for Charlie Kaufman's Oscar-winning script for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. An instant cult classic, the film's distinctive ambiguity and tangled narrative demands audience engagement and repeated watching. Delving into the central themes of the film, Andrew M. Butler foregrounds its play with genre and audience expectations, its psychoanalytic underpinnings and its debt to Philip K. Dick. Also examining its production processes, Butler explores the against-type casting of Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet in lead roles and the intertwined careers of Kaufman and director Michel Gondry. This special edition features original cover artwork by Patricia Derks."--Bloomsbury publishing.

Contents:

Introduction

Actors and auteurs

Science fiction

The comedy of remarriage

The puzzle film

Mourning, melancholy and trauma

Coda.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781838715571

1838715576

9781838713645

1838713646

9781844578375

1844578372

OCLC:

965719269