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Drawing upon the expertise of film scholars from around the world, Puzzle Films investigates 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.
- Unites American 'independent' cinema, the European and International Art film, and certain modes of avant-garde filmmaking on the basis of their shared storytelling complexity
- Draws upon the expertise of film scholars from North America, Britain, China, Poland, Holland, Italy, Greece, New Zealand, and Australia
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Table of contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Puzzle Plots Warren Buckland
- 1 The Mind-Game Film Thomas Elsaesser
- 2 Making Sense of Lost Highway Warren Buckland
- 3 āTwist Blindnessā: The Role of Primacy, Priming, Schemas, and Reconstructive Memory in a First-Time Viewing of The Sixth Sense Daniel Barratt
- 4 Narrative Comprehension Made Difficult: Film Form and Mnemonic Devices in Memento Stefano Ghislotti
- 5 āFrustrated Timeā Narration: The Screenplays of Charlie Kaufman Chris Dzialo
- 6 Backbeat and Overlap: Time, Place, and Character Subjectivity in Run Lola Run Michael Wedel
- 7 Infernal Affairs and the Ethics of Complex Narrative Allan Cameron and Sean Cubitt
- 8 Happy Together? Generic Hybridity in 2046 and In the Mood for Love Gary Bettinson
- 9 Revitalizing the Thriller Genre: Lou Yeās Suzhou River and Purple Butterfly Yunda Eddie Feng
- 10 The Pragmatic Poetics of Hong Sangsooās The Day a Pig Fell into a Well Marshall Deutelbaum
- 11 Looking for Access in Narrative Complexity. The New and the Old in Oldboy Eleftheria Thanouli
- Index