7 Rethinking Romantic Comedy through the Art Film: Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Notes on Contributors viii
5. Acknowledgments xii
6. Introduction: Michel Gondry as Transcultural Auteur 1
7. Part I Dreams, Play, and Whimsy
8. 1 “We Can Change the Whole Narrative”: Crafting Play and Nostalgia in Michel Gondry’s The Science of Sleep and Mood Indigo 17
9. 2 In Dreams and in Love There are No Impossibilities: Michel Gondry’s Cinema and the Aesthetics of the Oneiric 33
10. 3 I Am Collecting Beautiful Objects: Michel Gondry’s Taxidermy of Emotions 49
11. 4 The Cost of Whimsy in Mood Indigo and The Grand Budapest Hotel 66
12. Part II French Cinema and Identity
13. 5 L’Amour fou Revisited: The Surrealist Poetics of Michel Gondry 89
14. 6 On the Road to Adulthood: Microbe & Gasoline and the French Road Movie 102
15. Part III Narrative and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
16. 7 Rethinking Romantic Comedy through the Art Film: Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 117
17. 8 Apocalypse Ever After: Lifted Veils and Transcendent Time in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 132
18. Part IV Gondry in/on America
19. 9 The Reel and Surreal of Race in America: Michel Gondry and the African–American Identity Crisis of Dave Chappelle 153
20. 10 Memory à la Americana: From Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to Be Kind Rewind 167
21. 11 Playing with Superheroes: Genre, Aesthetics, and Deconstruction in The Green Hornet 184
22. Part V Multi-Media: Music Video and Television
23. 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 197
24. 13 Death and Pickles: Thinking through Gondry’s Neighborhood 213
25. Index 221