{"title":"Spike Jonze’s Screenwriting: The Screenplay","authors":"Wyatt Moss-Wellington","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474447621.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474447621.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This original screenplay presents a fictional dialogue with Spike Jonze, drawing much of its content from interviews, speeches made by Jonze, and other writings concerning the nature of screenwriting. The dialogue traverses a consideration of the writing process and themes of Jonze’s two original screenplays: Her and Where the Wild Things Are.","PeriodicalId":304918,"journal":{"name":"ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116673292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adaptation in Adaptation in Adaptation in Adaptation","authors":"Wyatt Moss-Wellington","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474447621.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474447621.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter offers a close analysis of Adaptation and its treatment of Darwinian themes. It uses the film to think through some issues in literary and cinematic Darwinism, prompting questions regarding evolution’s use in the humanities: what is the explanatory power of evolutionary biology, and how can we transform evolutionary thinking into meaningfully new information, information that might affect subsequent storytelling or behaviour in the world? Like the film, this chapter is concerned with identifying original thinking—how do we know when we have created something hermeneutically new?","PeriodicalId":304918,"journal":{"name":"ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125739566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spike Jonze, Propaganda/Satellite Films, and Music Video Work: Talent Management and the Construction of an Indie-Auteur","authors":"Andrew Stubbs","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474447621.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474447621.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter critically evaluates the status Jonze has earned as indie-auteur, a label placing him alongside filmmakers such as Jim Jarmusch, the Coen Brothers and Steven Soderbergh. Jonze’s filmmaking career began in part thanks to his music video work, particularly for Propaganda Films; Stubbs analyses Propaganda Films’ talent management practices and their role in helping to develop Jonze’s brand and industry profile. The chapter investigates the economic and industrial strategies underpinning Jonze’s cultural and commercial profile, synthesizing textual analyses of Jonze’s music videos with marketing and critical discourse analysis. Stubbs aims to reconfigure Jonze’s authorial profile while considering the cultural implications of the indie-auteur label in general.","PeriodicalId":304918,"journal":{"name":"ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze","volume":"482 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133695415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}