Puzzle films : complex storytelling in contemporary cinema / edited by Warren Buckland.
"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 film...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2009.
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| Online Access: | Wiley Online Library Table of contents |
| Summary: | "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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 241 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1405168617 9781405168618 1405168625 9781405168625 1282026208 9781282026209 1444305700 9781444305708 1444305719 9781444305715 |