ReFocus: The Films of Michel Gondry
The Films of Michel Gondry
1st Edition
Published on 21. September 2020
240 pages
978-1-4744-5603-6 (ISBN)
Description
The 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.
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Content
- Intro
- 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
