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.