Impossible Puzzle Films - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Impossible Puzzle Films write by Miklos Kiss. This book was released on 2017-04-28. Impossible Puzzle Films available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Impossible Puzzle Films
Impossible Puzzle Films - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Impossible Puzzle Films write by Miklós Kiss (College teacher). This book was released on 2017. Impossible Puzzle Films available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By blending film studies and cognitive sciences, Miklós Kiss and Steven Willemsen's study on impossible puzzle films looks into the relation between complex storytelling and the mind. Films looked at include 'Donnie Darko, ' 'Mulholland Drive' and 'Primer.'
Hollywood Puzzle Films
Hollywood Puzzle Films - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hollywood Puzzle Films write by Warren Buckland. This book was released on 2014-05-30. Hollywood Puzzle Films available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Inception to The Lake House, moviegoers are increasingly flocking to narratologically complex puzzle films. These puzzle movies borrow techniques—like fragmented spatio-temporal reality, time loops, unstable characters with split identities or unreliable narrators—more commonly attributed to art cinema and independent films. The essays in Hollywood Puzzle Films examine the appropriation of puzzle film techniques by contemporary Hollywood dramas and blockbusters through questions of narrative, time, and altered realities. Analyzing movies like Source Code, The Butterfly Effect, Donnie Darko, Déjà Vu, and adaptations of Philip K. Dick, contributors explore the implications of Hollywood's new movie mind games.
Puzzling Stories
Puzzling Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Puzzling Stories write by Steven Willemsen. This book was released on 2022-08-12. Puzzling Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many films and novels defy our ability to make sense of the plot. While puzzling storytelling, strange incongruities, inviting enigmas and persistent ambiguities have been central to the effects of many literary and cinematic traditions, a great deal of contemporary films and television series bring such qualities to the mainstream—but wherein lies the attractiveness of perplexing works of fiction? This collected volume offers the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and trans-medial approach to the question of cognitive challenge in narrative art, bringing together psychological, philosophical, formal-historical, and empirical perspectives from leading scholars across these fields.
The Mind-Game Film
The Mind-Game Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mind-Game Film write by Thomas Elsaesser. This book was released on 2021-03-28. The Mind-Game Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book represents the culmination of Thomas Elsaesser’s intense and passionate thinking about the Hollywood mind-game film from the previous two decades. In order to answer what the mind-game film is, why they exist, and how they function, Elsaesser maps the industrial-institutional challenges and constraints facing Hollywood, and the broader philosophic horizon within which American cinema thrives today. He demonstrates how the ‘Persistence of Hollywood’ continues as it has adapted to include new twists and turns, as well as revisions of past concerns, as film moves through the 21st century. Through examples such as Minority Report, Mulholland Drive, Source Code, and Back to the Future, Elsaesser explores how mind-game films challenge us and play games with our perception of reality, creating skepticism and (self-) doubt. He also highlights the mind-game film's tendency to intervene in a complex fashion in the political moment by questioning the dominant power’s intent to program both body and mind alike. Prescient and compelling, The Mind-Game Film will appeal to students, scholars, and enthusiasts of media studies, film studies, philosophy, and politics.
