Includes bibliographical references and index Includes filmography (page 295)
Contents:
Introduction: Charlie Kaufman and Philosophy's Questions / DAVID LAROCCA 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 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 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 Netzschean Themes in the Films of Charlie Kaufman / DANIEL SHAW Inconclusive Unscientific Postscript: Late Remarks on Kierkegaard and Kaufman / DAVID LAROCCA
