The philosophy of Charlie Kaufman [electronic resource] / edited by David LaRocca.

Includes filmography.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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