Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Notes on Contributors viii
5. Acknowledgments xi
6. Introduction: Jonze Between the Lines 1
7. Part 1 Authorship and Originality
8. 1 Adaptation in Adaptation in Adaptation in Adaptation 15
9. 2 “I’ll eat you up I love you so”: Adaptation, Authorship, and Intermediality in Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are 33
10. 3 Converging Indiewood: Spike Jonze, Propaganda Films, and the Emergence of Specialty Film Giant USA Films 46
11. Part 2 Psychology, Identity, and Crisis
12. 4 “You can be John Malkovich”: Celebrity, Absurdity, and Convention in Being John Malkovich 67
13. 5 “I can’t sleep. I’m losing my hair. I’m fat and repulsive”: Crises of Masculinity and Artistry in Spike Jonze’s Adaptation 86
14. 5½ Spike Jonze’s Screenwriting: The Screenplay 105
15. Part 3 Her
16. 7 “Are these feelings even real?” Intimacy and Authenticity in Spike Jonze’s Her 139
17. 8 Machinic Empathy and Mental Health: The Relational Ethics of Machine Empathy and Artificial Intelligence in Her 158
18. 9 The “tedious yammering of selves”: The End of Intimacy in Spike Jonze’s Her 175
19. Part 4 Beyond the Feature
20. 10 Spike Jonze Shorts Stories 195
21. 11 Spike Jonze, Propaganda/Satellite Films, and Music Video Work: Talent Management and the Construction of an Indie-Auteur 213
22. 12 Spike Jonze’s Abbreviated Art of the Suburbs 231
23. Index 248