Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

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Title:

Author:

Grau, Christopher.

ISBN:

9780415774659

9780415774666

9780203875537

Publication Information:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Physical Description:

xv, 160 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Series:

Philosophers on film

Contents:

Introduction / Christopher Grau -- Blue ruins : love and memory in eternal sunshine of the spotless mind / C.D.C. Reeve -- Miserably ever after : forgetting, repeating and affirming love in eternal sunshine of the spotless mind / Troy Jollimore -- Bad memories, good decisions, and the three Joels / Valerie Tiberius -- Memory, desire, and value in eternal sunshine of the spotless mind / Julia Driver -- Michel Gondry and the phenomenology of visual perception / Stephen L. White -- Trying to remember Clementine / George Toles.

Title Subject:

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (Motion picture)

Subject Term:

Philosophy in motion pictures.

Memory in motion pictures.

Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures.

Added Author:

Grau, Christopher.

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Summary

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of the most widely discussed and thought-provoking films of recent years.

This is the first book to explore and address the philosophical aspects of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Beginning with a helpful introduction that places each essay in context, specially commissioned chapters examine the following topics:

philosophical issues surrounding love, friendship, affirmation and repetition the role of memory (and the emotions) in personal identity and decision-making the morality of imagination and ethical importance of memory philosophical questions about self-knowledge and knowing the minds of others the aesthetics of the film considered in relation to Gondry's other works and issues in the philosophy of perception

Including a foreword by Michel Gondry and a list of further reading, this volume is essential reading for students interested in philosophy and film studies.