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Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema

Warren Buckland (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-6861-8
Hardcover
256 pages
January 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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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 a First-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: Lou Ye's Suzhou River and Purple Butterfly: Yunda Eddie Feng.

10. The Pragmatic Poetics of Hong Sangsoo's 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

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