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Examines how the work of American filmmaker Spike Jonze crosses boundaries between genre entertainment and experimentalism

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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).



Kim Wilkins is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Screen Cultures at the University of Oslo.

Wyatt Moss-Wellington is an Assistant Professor in Media and Communication Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China.

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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 groundbreaking 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.Kim Wilkins is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Screen Cultures at the University of Oslo. Wyatt Moss-Wellington is an Assistant Professor in Media and Communication Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China.

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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 groundbreaking 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.Kim Wilkins is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Screen Cultures at the University of Oslo. Wyatt Moss-Wellington is an Assistant Professor in Media and Communication Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China.

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ISBN 10:  1474447651 ISBN 13:  9781474447652
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2021
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