Mosaic Space and Mosaic Auteurs

On the Cinema of Alejandro González Iñárritu, Atom Egoyan, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Michael Haneke

Yun-hua Chen

• Publisher: Neofelis
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9783958080447
• eBook ISBN: 9783958081079
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

Mosaic Space and Mosaic Auteurs constructs a model of mosaic, which extends our focus beyond narrative strategy, to approach the trend of diverse multi-strand films across genres, nations and filmmaking contexts since the late 1980s. Different from investigation of this recurring global phenomenon from perspectives of spectator engagement, narratology, cognitive understanding and socio-political messages, proposed by film scholars, the model of mosaic helps establish the intertwining relationship between narrative, aesthetics, transnational production, and distribution modes – and in the framework of contextualised geopolitical spaces.As the transnational auteurs in question draw talents, resources, and subject matters from a wide range of geopolitical spaces along their border-crossing journeys, their films juxtapose diverse spatial configurations. In fact, "mosaic" is a spatial metaphor which puts emphasis on the visual image of spaces and links space, narrative, and authorship into a multidimensional model of spatial compilation. It is a mosaic which gathers, groups, juxtaposes, and re-arranges spaces, offering a reading of mosaic beyond an exclusive focus on narrative – its nuances are examined in detail in different mosaics of Alejandro González Iñárritu, Atom Egoyan, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Michael Haneke.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Part I. Horizontal Mosaic
• Part II. Vertical Mosaic
• Part III. Three-dimensional Mosaic: Horizontal and Vertical
• Conclusion
• Appendix