Marcelline Block is Adjunct Professor at LIM College, New York Dr Jennifer Kirby is a Senior Tutor at Massey University

This remarkable collection of articles focusses on one of the most prominent and internationally renowned French directors seen through the lens of academics and researchers. A must-read for filmgoers as well as researchers who want to discover or rediscover Michel Gondry’s inventive and very distinctive visual style as well as the mesmerizing universe he creates.

• List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Michel Gondry as Trans-cultural Auteur - Marcelline Block and Jennifer KirbyPart I Dreams, Play and Whimsy1. "We Can Change the Whole Narrative": Crafting Play and Nostalgia in Michel Gondry’s The Science of Sleep and Mood Indigo - Danica van de Velde2. In Dreams and in Love There are no Impossibilities:　Michel Gondry’s Cinema and the Aesthetics of the Oneiric - Bruno Surace3. I Am Collecting Beautiful Objects: Michel Gondry’s Taxidermy of Emotions - Jenny Pyke 4. The Cost of Whimsy in Mood Indigo and The Grand Budapest Hotel - Mica HilsonPart II French Cinema and Identity5. L’amour fou revisited: The surrealist poetics of Michel Gondry - Sian Mitchell6. On the Road to Adulthood: Microbe & Gasoline and The French Road Movie - Marcelline Block and Jennifer KirbyPart III Narrative and Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind7. Rethinking Romantic Comedy through the Art Film: Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Raffaele Ariano8. Apocalypse Ever After: Lifted Veils and Transcendent Time in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Sheheryar B. SheikhPart IV Gondry In/On America9. The Reel and Surreal of Race in America: Michel Gondry and the African-American Identity Crisis of Dave Chappelle - Monique Taylor10. Memory à la Americana: From Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to Be Kind Rewind - Yu-Yun Hsieh11. Playing with Superheroes: Genre, Aesthetics and Deconstruction in The Green Hornet - Jennifer KirbyPart V Multi-Media: Music Video, Documentary, Television12. "It Would not be Just Be Visual, it Could Have Words and a Story": Performance and Narrative in the Music Video Oeuvre of Michel Gondry - Daniel Klug13. Death and Pickles: Thinking Through Gondry’s Neighborhood - Lisa DeToraIndex

Marcelline Block is Adjunct Professor at LIM College, New York Dr Jennifer Kirby is a Senior Tutor at Massey University

This remarkable collection of articles focusses on one of the most prominent and internationally renowned French directors seen through the lens of academics and researchers. A must-read for filmgoers as well as researchers who want to discover or rediscover Michel Gondry’s inventive and very distinctive visual style as well as the mesmerizing universe he creates.

• List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Michel Gondry as Trans-cultural Auteur - Marcelline Block and Jennifer KirbyPart I Dreams, Play and Whimsy1. "We Can Change the Whole Narrative": Crafting Play and Nostalgia in Michel Gondry’s The Science of Sleep and Mood Indigo - Danica van de Velde2. In Dreams and in Love There are no Impossibilities:　Michel Gondry’s Cinema and the Aesthetics of the Oneiric - Bruno Surace3. I Am Collecting Beautiful Objects: Michel Gondry’s Taxidermy of Emotions - Jenny Pyke 4. The Cost of Whimsy in Mood Indigo and The Grand Budapest Hotel - Mica HilsonPart II French Cinema and Identity5. L’amour fou revisited: The surrealist poetics of Michel Gondry - Sian Mitchell6. On the Road to Adulthood: Microbe & Gasoline and The French Road Movie - Marcelline Block and Jennifer KirbyPart III Narrative and Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind7. Rethinking Romantic Comedy through the Art Film: Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Raffaele Ariano8. Apocalypse Ever After: Lifted Veils and Transcendent Time in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Sheheryar B. SheikhPart IV Gondry In/On America9. The Reel and Surreal of Race in America: Michel Gondry and the African-American Identity Crisis of Dave Chappelle - Monique Taylor10. Memory à la Americana: From Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to Be Kind Rewind - Yu-Yun Hsieh11. Playing with Superheroes: Genre, Aesthetics and Deconstruction in The Green Hornet - Jennifer KirbyPart V Multi-Media: Music Video, Documentary, Television12. "It Would not be Just Be Visual, it Could Have Words and a Story": Performance and Narrative in the Music Video Oeuvre of Michel Gondry - Daniel Klug13. Death and Pickles: Thinking Through Gondry’s Neighborhood - Lisa DeToraIndex

Marcelline Block is Adjunct Professor at LIM College, New York Dr Jennifer Kirby is a Senior Tutor at Massey University

This remarkable collection of articles focusses on one of the most prominent and internationally renowned French directors seen through the lens of academics and researchers. A must-read for filmgoers as well as researchers who want to discover or rediscover Michel Gondry’s inventive and very distinctive visual style as well as the mesmerizing universe he creates.

• List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Michel Gondry as Trans-cultural Auteur - Marcelline Block and Jennifer KirbyPart I Dreams, Play and Whimsy1. "We Can Change the Whole Narrative": Crafting Play and Nostalgia in Michel Gondry’s The Science of Sleep and Mood Indigo - Danica van de Velde2. In Dreams and in Love There are no Impossibilities:　Michel Gondry’s Cinema and the Aesthetics of the Oneiric - Bruno Surace3. I Am Collecting Beautiful Objects: Michel Gondry’s Taxidermy of Emotions - Jenny Pyke 4. The Cost of Whimsy in Mood Indigo and The Grand Budapest Hotel - Mica HilsonPart II French Cinema and Identity5. L’amour fou revisited: The surrealist poetics of Michel Gondry - Sian Mitchell6. On the Road to Adulthood: Microbe & Gasoline and The French Road Movie - Marcelline Block and Jennifer KirbyPart III Narrative and Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind7. Rethinking Romantic Comedy through the Art Film: Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Raffaele Ariano8. Apocalypse Ever After: Lifted Veils and Transcendent Time in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Sheheryar B. SheikhPart IV Gondry In/On America9. The Reel and Surreal of Race in America: Michel Gondry and the African-American Identity Crisis of Dave Chappelle - Monique Taylor10. Memory à la Americana: From Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to Be Kind Rewind - Yu-Yun Hsieh11. Playing with Superheroes: Genre, Aesthetics and Deconstruction in The Green Hornet - Jennifer KirbyPart V Multi-Media: Music Video, Documentary, Television12. "It Would not be Just Be Visual, it Could Have Words and a Story": Performance and Narrative in the Music Video Oeuvre of Michel Gondry - Daniel Klug13. Death and Pickles: Thinking Through Gondry’s Neighborhood - Lisa DeToraIndex