The films of Michel Gondry / edited by Marcelline Block and Jennifer Kirby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Block, Marcelline, Author.

Contributor:

Block, Marcelline, editor.

Kirby, Jennifer, editor.

Series:

ReFocus. The international directors series.

Edinburgh scholarship online.

ReFocus. The international directors series

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gondry, Michel--Criticism and interpretation.

Gondry, Michel.

Motion picture producers and directors--France--Criticism and interpretation.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, 2021.

Summary:

The acclaimed French auteur behind the mind-bending modern classic 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' (2004), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Michel Gondry has directed 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 book, 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 and transcultural auteur whose work provides insight into both French/European and American cinematic and cultural identity.

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 10, 2021).

ISBN:

1-4744-9067-0

1-4744-5603-0

OCLC:

1312726341