Impossible Puzzle Films: A Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema - Couverture rigide

Kiss, Miklós; Willemsen, Steven

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1474406726 ISBN 13 : 9781474406727

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Narrative complexity is a trend in contemporary cinema. Since the late 1990s there has been a palpable increase in complex storytelling in movies. But how and why do complex movies create perplexity and confusion? How do we engage with these challenges? And what makes complex stories so attractive? By blending film studies, narrative theory and cognitive sciences, Kiss and Wilemsen look into the relation between complex storytelling and the mind. Analysing the effects that different complex narratives have on viewers, the book addresses how films like Donnie Darko, Mulholland Drive and Primer strategically create complexity and confusion, using the specific category of the impossible puzzle film to examine movies that use baffling paradoxes, impossible loops, and unresolved ambiguities in their stories and storytelling. By looking at how these films play on our mind's blind spots, this innovative book explains their viewing effects in terms of the mental state of cognitive dissonance that they evoke.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Miklos Kiss is Assistant Professor in Film and Media Studies at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Steven Willemsen is a PhD-candidate and Junior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1474406726
• ISBN 13: 9781474406727
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible