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The Films of Spike Jonze
Edited by Kim Wilkins and Wyatt Moss-Wellington
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Book Presentation:
Examines how the work of American filmmaker Spike Jonze crosses boundaries between genre entertainment and experimentalism
• Read the blog post An interview with Wyatt Moss-Wellington, author of ‘Narrative Humanism’ and co-editor of ‘ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze’
• Surveys the breadth of Jonze’s work as a director and screenwriter of features, shorts and music videos
• Considers Jonze’s oeuvre in both its industrial and philosophical contexts, with a focus on film production, psychology and identity, posthumanism and gender studies
• Connects Jonze to other relevant filmmakers, American political and cultural events and institutions
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.
About the authors:
Kim Wilkins is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Screen Cultures at the University of Oslo. She is the author of American Eccentric Cinema (2019) and co-editor with Wyatt Moss-Wellington of Refocus: The Films of Spike Jonze (2019). She has published widely on American indie cinema, German film, and television in numerous journals and edited collections. Wyatt Moss-Wellington is Associate Professor in Media and Culture at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. He is the author of Cognitive Film and Media Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2021), Narrative Humanism: Kindness and Complexity in Fiction and Film (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) and co-editor with Kim Wilkins of ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze (Edinburgh University Press, 2019). Moss-Wellington is also a progressive folk multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter, and has released four studio albums: The Kinder We (2017), Sanitary Apocalypse (2014), Gen Y Irony Stole My Heart (2011) and The Supermarket and the Turncoat (2009).
Press Reviews:
Spike Jonze excels at coloring inside and outside the lines, working as producer, writer and director – and performing as stuntman, skateboarder and dancer, too. Wilkins and Moss-Wellington’s insightful anthology studies his feature films, music videos, commercials, and shorts. A welcome addition to scholarship, it speaks to everyone interested in transmedia production and innovative authorship.– Christine A. Holmlund, Professor Emerita, Cinema Studies, University of Tennessee
See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press
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