...Alla Ivanchikova This article offers a reading of two recent feature films, Jonathan Mostow's Surrogates (US, 2009) and Spike Jonze's Her (US, 2013), as allegories of the tensions inherent in our collective relation with machines, examining the role technology plays in the constitution...

... in the Dark (dir. Fred Schepisi, US, 1988). In the AFI clip fest, Streep’s curiosity and tenta- tiveness as Susan Orlean in Adaptation (dir. Spike Jonze, US, 2003) appeared in moving contrast to her romantic intensity as Clarissa Vaughan in The Hours (dir. Stephen Daldry, US/UK, 2002), two films...

... the surreal dreamers of Kaufman and Spike Jonze to the Socratic figures of Whit Stillman and Hartley. These characters are unapologetically objectified, but in ways that ironize their presentation. In other words, the content is sexist but 146  •  Camera Obscura overtly constructed, reflexive...

...-okcupid/ . 38. Misha Kavka, “The Science of Affection: Algorithmic Love Matches on TV,” Screen 62, no. 2 (2021): 227–35. 39. Eva-Lynn Jagoe, “Depersonalized Intimacy: The Cases of Sherry Turkle and Spike Jonze,” ESC: English Studies in Canada 42, no. 1 (2016): 155–73; Alla Ivanchikova...

... of Histories of   The Watermelon Woman  •  45 such a style of reflexive work is debatable at this point in time. For instance, the legacy of Fellini’s 8 1/2 (Italy, 1963), as interpreted by Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze in Adaptation (US, 2002), begs the question: does the explicit...