Puzzle films : complex storytelling in contemporary cinema
"Puzzle Films examines the influence of a new storytelling epoch on contemporary world cinema by identifying and analyzing films that reject classical storytelling techniques and instead embrace nonlinearity, time loops, and fragmented spatio-temporal reality as their narrative form. These films blur the boundaries between different levels of reality, and are riddled with gaps, deception, labyrinthine structures, unreliable narrators, and overt coincidences." "At a time when many a film is asking more - not less - of fans and cineastes, Puzzle Films will help viewers keep pace with a form of narration that captures the anxiety and ambiguity of our time."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2009
Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., 2009
ix, 241 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9781405168618, 9781405168625, 1405168617, 1405168625
230183112
Introduction: Puzzle plots / Warren Buckland
The mind-game film / Thomas Elsaesser
Making sense of Lost Highway / Warren Buckland
"Twist blindness" : the role of primacy, priming, schemas, and reconstructive memory in a first-time viewing of The Sixth Sense / Daniel Barratt
Narrative comprehension made difficult : film form and mnemonic devices in Memento / Stefano Ghislotti
"Frustrated time" narration : the screenplays of Charlie Kaufman / Chris Dzialo
Backbeat and overlap : time, place, and character subjectivity in Run Lola Run / Michael Wedel
Infernal Affairs and the ethics of complex narrative / Allan Cameron and Sean Cubitt
Happy together? : generic hybridity in 2046 and In the Mood for Love / Gary Bettinson
Revitalizing the thriller genre : Lou Ye's Suzhou River and Purple Butterfly / Yunda Eddie Feng
The pragmatic poetics of Hong Sangsoo's The Day a Pig Fell into a Well / Marshall Deutelbaum
Looking for access in narrative complexity : the new and the old in Oldboy / Eleftheria Thanouli
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