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Puzzle films : complex storytelling in contemporary cinema /
edited by Warren Buckland.
- Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
- ix, 241 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781405168618 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Motion pictures--Philosophy.
Space and time in motion pictures.
Narration (Rhetoric)
PN1995 / .P89 2009
791.43611 / P994
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781405168618 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Motion pictures--Philosophy.
Space and time in motion pictures.
Narration (Rhetoric)
PN1995 / .P89 2009
791.43611 / P994