Puzzle films
Subtitle: complex storytelling in contemporary world cinema
By: edited by Warren Buckland.
Contributors: Buckland, Warren.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781405168618; 9781405168625
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Philosophy; Space and time in motion pictures; Narration (Rhetoric)
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.