ReFocus The Films of Spike Jonze

2019-07-29

ReFocus: The American Directors Series Series Editors: Robert Singer and Gary D. Rhodes Editorial board: Kelly Basilio, Donna Campbell, Claire Perkins, Christopher Sharrett and Yannis Tzioumakis ReFocus is a series of contemporary ...

Author: Kim Wilkins

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

ISBN: 9781474447638

Category: Performing Arts

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This book looks at Spike Jonze's ground-breaking work in both features and short forms, exploring the impact of his filmmaking across a range of philosophical and cultural discussions
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ReFocus The Films of Spike Jonze

2019-07-29

American film directors to a new audience of scholars and general readers of both American and Film Studies. Titles in the series include: ReFocus: The Films of Preston Sturges Edited by Jeff Jaeckle and Sarah Kozloff ReFocus: The Films ...

Author: Wilkins Kim Wilkins

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

ISBN: 9781474447645

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ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze is the first collection of essays on this important and original contemporary filmmaker. It looks at his ground-breaking work in both features and short forms, exploring the impact of his filmmaking across a range of philosophical and cultural discussions. Each of Jonze's feature films, from Being John Malkovich (1999) to Her (2013), is discussed at length, focusing on issues of authorship, narration, genre and adaptation. As well as the textual aspects of Jonze's feature films, the contributors consider his work in music videos and shorts - investigating his position as a filmmaker on the blurred boundaries between studio and independent modes of production.
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ReFocus The Films of Paul Schrader

2020-05-28

ReFocus: the American Directors Series Series Editors: Robert Singer, Frances Smith, and Gary D. Rhodes Editorial ... and Dean Brandum ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze Edited by Kim Wilkins and Wyatt Moss-Wellington ReFocus: The Films ...

Author: Michelle E. Moore

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

ISBN: 9781474462051

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 272

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Offers the first comprehensive academic text to explore Paul Schrader's film career through analysis of his directing, screenwriting, and film criticismContains a chapter-length interview, in which Schrader examines the arc of his career for the first time and revises previous statements about filmmaking and film criticismProvides a valuable update to previous texts on SchraderConsiders Schrader's overlooked films and provides new insight into their connections with Schrader's better known filmsContains chapters on Schrader's work since 2008, the publication date of the last book on his filmmakingPaul Schrader's unique relationship to the role of the author (as screenwriter, director and critic) has long informed his cinema, and raises complicated questions about the definition of the auteur. This volume of essays - one of the first collections to assess Schrader's contributions to directing, screenwriting and criticism - includes the first original appraisals of his much-lauded masterpiece First Reformed (2017), as well as a chapter-length interview with Schrader himself, conducted by the editors. Providing a comprehensive exploration of his groundbreaking achievements in cinema, the book considers Schrader's more overlooked films and provides new insights to their connection with his celebrated work in direction and screenwriting such as Taxi Driver (1976), Cat People (1982) and The Comfort of Strangers (1990).
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ReFocus The Films of Michel Gondry

2020-09-21

At least since the late 1990s, Allen has been joined by a younger group of auteur filmmakers, including Paul Thomas Anderson, Noah Baumbach, Sofia Coppola, Greta Gerwig, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Charlie Kaufman, Richard Linklater, ...

Author: Block Marcelline Block

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

ISBN: 9781474456043

Category: Motion picture producers and directors

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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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The Films of Spike Jonze

2019

This book looks at Spike Jonze's ground-breaking work in both features and short forms, exploring the impact of his filmmaking across a range of philosophical and cultural discussions.

Author: Kim Wilkins

Publisher: ReFocus: The American Directors Series

ISBN: 1474447627

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Page: 252

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ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonzeis the first collection of essays on this important and original contemporary filmmaker. It looks at his ground-breaking work in both features and short forms, exploring the impact of his filmmaking across a range of philosophical and cultural discussions. Each of Jonze's feature films, from Being John Malkovich(1999) to Her(2013), is discussed at length, focusing on issues of authorship, narration, genre and adaptation. As well as the textual aspects of Jonze's feature films, the contributors consider his work in music videos and shorts - investigating his position as a filmmaker on the blurred boundaries between studio and independent modes of production.
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New Wave New Hollywood

2021-09-23

She is affiliated with the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and cinema studies. ... She is the author of American Eccentric Cinema (2019), coeditor of Refocus: The Films of Spike Jonze with Wyatt Moss-Wellington (2019), ...

Author: Gregory Frame

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

ISBN: 9781501360398

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 272

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As a period of film history, The American New Wave (ordinarily understood as beginning in 1967 and ending in 1980) remains a preoccupation for scholars and audiences alike. In traditional accounts, it is considered to be bookended by two periods of conservatism, and viewed as a (brief) period of explosive creativity within the Hollywood system. From Bonnie and Clyde to Heaven's Gate, it produced films that continue to be watched, discussed, analysed and poured over. It has, however, also become rigidly defined as a cinema of director-auteurs who made a number of aesthetically and politically significant films. This has led to marginalization and exclusion of many important artists and filmmakers, as well as a temporal rigidity about what and who is considered part of the 'New Wave proper'. This collection seeks to reinvigorate debate around this area of film history. It also looks in part to demonstrate the legacy of aesthetic experimentation and political radicalism after 1980 as part of the 'legacy' of the New Wave. Thanks to important new work that questions received scholarly wisdom, reveals previously marginalised filmmakers (and the films they made), considers new genres, personnel, and films under the banner of 'New Wave, New Hollywood', and reevaluates the traditional approaches and perspectives on the films that have enjoyed most critical attention, New Wave, New Hollywood: Reassessment, Recovery, Legacy looks to begin a new discussion about Hollywood cinema after 1967.
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After Happily Ever After

2021-05-18

In Nordic Genre Film: SmallNation Film Cultures in the Global Marketplace, edited by Tommy Gustafsson and Pietari Kääpä, 159–72. ... In ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze, edited by Kim Wilkins and Wyatt Moss-Wellington, 175–92.

Author: Maria San Filippo

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

ISBN: 9780814346754

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 382

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Explores romantic comedy’s revitalizing response to shifting sexual and social mores of the past decade.
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The Oxford Handbook of Cinematic Listening

2021

I discuss this further in “The Long and the Short of Music Video” and in “Spike Jonze's Abbreviated Art of the Suburbs” in ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze, ed. Kim Wilkins and Wyatt Moss-Wellington (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University ...

Author: Carlo Cenciarelli

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780190853617

Category: Music

Page: 792

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"It has long been suggested that films have changed the way we listen, but cinema's contribution to broader listening cultures has only recently started to receive serious academic attention. Taking this issue as its central topic, The Oxford Handbook of Cinematic Listening explores-from philosophical, archival, empirical, and analytical perspectives-the genealogies of cinema's audiovisual practices, the relationship between film aesthetics and listening protocols, and the extension of cinematic modes of listening into other media and everyday situations. Featuring scholars from musicology, film studies and literary studies, ethnomusicology and sound studies, media and communications and psychology, this Handbook aims to foster new ways of thinking about the intersection between the history of listening and the history of the moving image. It offers a wealth of original case studies and novel perspectives that show how cinematic listening is constantly being redefined in relation to shifting historical, spatial, textual and theoretical frameworks"--
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Reading Westworld

2019-05-09

She was a founding editor of Science Fiction Film and Television from 2009–2018 and is currently an editor for the ... of American Eccentric Cinema (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) and the co-editor of ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze ...

Author: Alex Goody

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9783030145156

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 313

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Reading Westworld is the first volume to explore the cultural, textual and theoretical significance of the hugely successful HBO TV series Westworld. The essays engage in a series of original enquiries into the central themes of the series including conceptions of the human and posthuman, American history, gaming, memory, surveillance, AI, feminism, imperialism, free will and contemporary capitalism. In its varied critical engagements with the genre, narratives and contexts of Westworld, this volume explores the show’s wider and deeper meanings and the questions it poses, as well considering how Westworld reflects on the ethical implications of artificial life and technological innovation for our own futurity. With critical essays that draw on the interdisciplinary strengths and productive intersections of media, cultural and literary studies, Reading Westworld seeks to respond to the show’s fundamental question; “Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality?” It will be of interest to students, academics and general readers seeking to engage with Westworld and the far-reaching questions it poses about our current engagements with technology.
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Video Games and Comedy

2022-03-26

He is the author of Cognitive Film and Media Ethics (2021), Narrative Humanism: Kindness and Complexity in Fiction and Film (2019) and co-editor with Kim Wilkins of ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze (2019). Dooley Murphy is a PhD fellow ...

Author: Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783030883386

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 362

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Video Games and Comedy is the first edited volume to explore the intersections between comedy and video games. This pioneering book collects chapters from a diverse group of scholars, covering a wide range of approaches and examining the relationship between video games, humour, and comedy from many different angles. The first section of the book includes chapters that engage with theories of comedy and humour, adapting them to the specifics of the video game medium. The second section explores humour in the contexts, cultures, and communities that give rise to and spring up around video games, focusing on phenomena such as in-jokes, player self-reflexivity, and player/fan creativity. The third section offers case studies of individual games or game series, exploring the use of irony as well as sexual and racial humour in video games.
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