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Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema Paperback - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Warren Buckland (Editor)

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Drawing upon the expertise of film scholars from around the world, Puzzle Films investigates a number of films that sport complex storytelling--from Memento, Old Boy, and Run Lola Run, to the Infernal Affairs trilogy and In the Mood for Love.
  • Unites American 'independent' cinema, the European and International Art film, and certain modes of avant-garde filmmaking on the basis of their shared storytelling complexity
  • Draws upon the expertise of film scholars from North America, Britain, China, Poland, Holland, Italy, Greece, New Zealand, and Australia

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Puzzle Films examines the influence of a new storytelling epoch on contemporary world cinema. 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, are riddled with gaps, deception, labyrinthine structures, unreliable narrators, and overt coincidences.

Drawing upon the expertise of film scholars from around the world, this edited collectioninvestigates a number of films that sport complex storytelling--from Memento, Old Boy, and Run Lola Run, to the Infernal Affairs trilogy and In the Mood for Love.

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.

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  • Title Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema
  • Author Warren Buckland (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 252
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
  • Publication date 2009-02-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9781405168625 / 1405168625
  • Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 1.52 cm)
  • Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
  • Library of Congress subjects Motion pictures - Philosophy, Narration (Rhetoric)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008040233
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.436

About the author

Warren Buckland is Reader in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is author of Directed by Steven Spielberg and The Cognitive Semiotics of Film, and co-author (with Thomas Elsaesser) of Studying Contemporary American Film.

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