The Stillness of Solitude: Romanticism and Contemporary American Independent Film

In the first book-length study of Romanticism in relation to American film, Michelle Devereaux takes established theories of contemporary American independent cinema as a point of entry, exploring the underlying philosophical and aesthetic Romantic connections between a selection of seven films from four popular filmmakers: Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman.

Primarily dealing with questions of identity, imagination and the relation between self and world, these fi...