{"product_id":"puzzle-films-isbn-9781405168625","title":"Puzzle Films","description":"Drawing upon the expertise of film scholars from around the world, \u003ci\u003ePuzzle Films\u003c\/i\u003e investigates a number of films that sport complex storytelling--from \u003ci\u003eMemento\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOld Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRun Lola Run\u003c\/i\u003e, to the \u003ci\u003eInfernal Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy and \u003ci\u003eIn the Mood for Love\u003c\/i\u003e.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eUnites American ‘independent’ cinema, the European and International Art film, and certain modes of avant-garde filmmaking on the basis of their shared storytelling complexity\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDraws upon the expertise of film scholars from North America, Britain, China, Poland, Holland, Italy, Greece, New Zealand, and Australia\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Contributors vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Puzzle Plots 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWarren Buckland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Mind-Game Film 13\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThomas Elsaesser\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Making Sense of Lost \u003ci\u003eHighway\u003c\/i\u003e 42\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWarren Buckland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 “Twist Blindness”: The Role of Primacy, Priming, Schemas, and Reconstructive Memory in a First-Time Viewing of \u003ci\u003eThe Sixth Sense\u003c\/i\u003e 62\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaniel Barratt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Narrative Comprehension Made Difficult: Film Form and Mnemonic Devices in \u003ci\u003eMemento\u003c\/i\u003e 87\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStefano Ghislotti\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 “Frustrated Time” Narration: The Screenplays of Charlie Kaufman 107\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChris Dzialo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Backbeat and Overlap: Time, Place, and Character Subjectivity in \u003ci\u003eRun Lola Run\u003c\/i\u003e 129\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Wedel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 \u003ci\u003eInfernal Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e and the Ethics of Complex Narrative 151\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAllan Cameron and Sean Cubitt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Happy Together? Generic Hybridity in \u003ci\u003e2046\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIn the Mood for Love\u003c\/i\u003e 167\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGary Bettinson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Revitalizing the Thriller Genre: Lou Ye’s \u003ci\u003eSuzhou River\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePurple Butterfly\u003c\/i\u003e 187\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYunda Eddie Feng\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The Pragmatic Poetics of Hong Sangsoo’s \u003ci\u003eThe Day a Pig Fell into a Well\u003c\/i\u003e 203\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarshall Deutelbaum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Looking for Access in Narrative Complexity. The New and the Old in \u003ci\u003eOldboy\u003c\/i\u003e 217\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEleftheria Thanouli\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 233\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Barratt makes excellent use of graphics to help illustrate the strategies employed by Shyamalan to prevent the first-time viewer anticipating the aforementioned twist . . . ultimately though, Buckland's collection does provide a thought-provoking study of what has become an important genre in contemporary cinema.\" (Scope Book Reviews, 1 February 2011)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\"A timely and insightful guide to some of the more complex and labyrinthine currents in recent cinema, drawing on an admirable range of examples from around the globe. \u003ci\u003eGeoff King, Professor of Film and TV Studies, Brunel University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eWarren Buckland\u003c\/b\u003e is Reader in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is author of \u003ci\u003eDirected by Steven Spielberg\u003c\/i\u003e and The Cognitive Semiotics of Film, and co-author (with Thomas Elsaesser) of \u003ci\u003eStudying Contemporary American Film\u003c\/i\u003e.  \u003ci\u003ePuzzle Films\u003c\/i\u003e 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.  \u003cp\u003eDrawing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt a time when many a film is asking more--not less--of fans and cineastes, \u003ci\u003ePuzzle Films\u003c\/i\u003e will help viewers keep pace with a form of narration that captures the anxiety and ambiguity of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989891268837,"sku":"NP9781405168625","price":48.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405168625.jpg?v=1761785811","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/puzzle-films-isbn-9781405168625","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}