The Philosophy of
CharlieKaufman
Fourteen bold and engaging original essays on his screenplays and films
written by more than a dozen scholars from diverse fields of inquiry.
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
OSCAR
for Charlie Kaufman
Best Original Screenplay, Winner, ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND
Best Adapted Screenplay, Nominated, ADAPTATION
Best Original Screenplay, Nominated, BEING JOHN MALKOVICH
Other volumes in The Philosophy of Popular Culture series:
July 5th-6th, 2010
Panel discussion on The Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman
at Swansea University, Wales UK with three contributors to the volume
- Department of Political and Cultural Studies
- Department of American Studies, offering an MA in
“Hollywood and the World: Transnational Perspectives on American Film”
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BOOK EVENTS
CONTRIBUTORS
K. L. Evans
Christopher Falzon
Mario von der Ruhr
David LaRocca
Douglas J. Den Uyl
William Day
Samuel A. Chambers
Garry L. Hagberg
Richard Deming
Derek Hill
Gregory E. Ganssle
David L. Smith
Daniel Shaw
2011
312 pp.
ISBN 978-0-8131-3391-1
CONTENTS
Introduction: Charlie Kaufman and Philosophy’s Questions
David LaRocca
Part 1. On Being and Not Being One’s Self
Charlie Kaufman, Screenwriter
K. L. Evans
On Being John Malkovich and Not Being Yourself
Christopher Falzon
The Divided Self: Kaufman, Kafka, Wittgenstein, and Human Nature
Mario von der Ruhr
Unauthorized Autobiography: Truth and Fact in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
David LaRocca
Part 2. Being, or Trying to Be, with Others
Me and You: Identity, Love, and Friendship in the Films of Charlie Kaufman
Douglas J. Den Uyl
I Don’t Know, Just Wait: Remembering Remarriage in Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind
William Day
Charlie Kaufman, Philosophy, and the Small Screen
Samuel A. Chambers
The Instructive Impossibility of Being John Malkovich
Garry L. Hagberg
Part 3. Being in the World, Partially
Living a Part: Synecdoche, New York, Metaphor, and the Problem of Skepticism
Richard Deming
“There’s No More Watching”: Artifice and Meaning in Synecdoche, New York
and Adaptation
Derek Hill
Human Nature and Freedom in Adaptation
Gregory E. Ganssle
Synecdoche, in Part
David L. Smith
Nietzschean Themes in the Films of Charlie Kaufman
Daniel Shaw
Inconclusive Unscientific Postscript: Late Remarks on Kierkegaard and Kaufman
David LaRocca
Filmography
List of Contributors
Index
June 19, 2011
Interview about The Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman with Charlie Dyer
during the Palm Springs International ShortFest
The Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman
was nominated for
Best Edited Collection
at
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies
2011
Podcast
Everyone’s Autobiography
Remarks on Anxiety and Pseudonymity in the work of
Soren Kierkegaard and Charlie Kaufman
The New York Public Library
South Court Auditorium
February 16, 2012
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