This edited collection examines the influence of a new storytelling epoch on contemporary world cinema. Analyzing films that reject classical storytelling techniques in favor of nonlinearity, time loops, and fragmented reality as their narrative form, Complex Storytelling investigates the three key sites of film production where complex storytelling is prevalent: North America, Asia, and Europe. At a time when many a film is asking more--not less--of fans and cineastes, Complex Storytelling will help viewers keep pace with a form of narration that captures the anxiety and ambiguity of our time. INDICE: Introduction: Puzzle Plots: Warren Buckland.1. The Mind-Game Film:Thomas Elsaesser.2. Making Sense of Lost Highway: Warren Buckland.3. Twist Blindness: The Role of Primacy, Priming, Schemas, and Reconstructive Memory in aFirst-Time Viewing of The Sixth Sense: Daniel Barratt.4. Narrative Comprehension Made Difficult: Film Form and Mnemonic Devices in Memento: Stefano Ghislotti.5. Frustrated Time Narration: The Screenplays of Charlie Kaufman: Chris Dzialo.6. Backbeat and Overlap: Time, Place, and Character Subjectivity in Run Lola Run: Michael Wedel.7. Infernal Affairs and the Ethics of Complex Narrative:Allan Cameron and Sean Cubitt.8. Happy Together? Generic Hybridity in 2046 and In the Mood for Love: Gary Bettinson.9. Revitalizing the Thriller Genre: LouYes Suzhou River and Purple Butterfly: Yunda Eddie Feng.10. The Pragmatic Poetics of Hong Sangsoos The Day a Pig Fell into a Well: Marshall Deutalbaum.11. Looking for Access in Narrative Complexity. The New and the Old in Oldboy: Eleftheria Thanouli
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-6861-8
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 02/01/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés