ANDREW M. BUTLER is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. He is the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (2009), and author of The Pocket Essential Philip K. Dick (2007) and Solar Flares: Science Fiction in the 1970s (2012).

Butler's skilful dissection of Eternal Sunshine confirms the suspicion that it is a film that demands further explanation and contextualisation if it is to be fully appreciated...This is not so much a companion to the nominally SF Charlie Kaufman/Michael Gondry film as a blueprint for unravelling a visual brainteaser.

• Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- 1. Actors and Auteurs.- 2. Science Fiction.- 3. The Comedy of Remarriage.- 4. The Puzzle Film.- 5. Mourning and Melancholy.- Coda.- Notes.- Credits.- Bibliography.

ANDREW M. BUTLER is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. He is the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (2009), and author of The Pocket Essential Philip K. Dick (2007) and Solar Flares: Science Fiction in the 1970s (2012).

Butler's skilful dissection of Eternal Sunshine confirms the suspicion that it is a film that demands further explanation and contextualisation if it is to be fully appreciated...This is not so much a companion to the nominally SF Charlie Kaufman/Michael Gondry film as a blueprint for unravelling a visual brainteaser.

• Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- 1. Actors and Auteurs.- 2. Science Fiction.- 3. The Comedy of Remarriage.- 4. The Puzzle Film.- 5. Mourning and Melancholy.- Coda.- Notes.- Credits.- Bibliography.

ANDREW M. BUTLER is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. He is the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (2009), and author of The Pocket Essential Philip K. Dick (2007) and Solar Flares: Science Fiction in the 1970s (2012).

Butler's skilful dissection of Eternal Sunshine confirms the suspicion that it is a film that demands further explanation and contextualisation if it is to be fully appreciated...This is not so much a companion to the nominally SF Charlie Kaufman/Michael Gondry film as a blueprint for unravelling a visual brainteaser.

• Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- 1. Actors and Auteurs.- 2. Science Fiction.- 3. The Comedy of Remarriage.- 4. The Puzzle Film.- 5. Mourning and Melancholy.- Coda.- Notes.- Credits.- Bibliography.