The Cinema of Disorientation
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The Cinema of Disorientation

Inviting Confusions

  1. 210 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Cinema of Disorientation

Inviting Confusions

About this book

Precisely, perhaps, because they are so immediately absorbing, narrative films can also be profoundly confusing and disorienting. This fascinating book neither proposes foolproof methods for avoiding confusion; nor does it suggest that disorientation is always a virtue. Instead it argues that the best way to come to terms with our confusion is to look closely at exactly what is confusing us, and why. At the heart of the book are original close readings of four important recent films: David Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE (2006), Leos Carax's Holy Motors (2012), Pedro Costa's Colossal Youth (2006) and Jean-Luc Godard's Goodbye to Language (2014). Clearly written but critically and theoretically bold, The Cinema of Disorientation: Inviting Confusions explores both how we get (or fail to get) our bearings with respect to a film, and what we might discover by (and while) doing so.

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Information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2020
eBook ISBN
9781474462792
Edition
0
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. Title page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction
  7. Prospectus
  8. Part 1 Confusion as Fusion
  9. CHAPTER 1 Metalepsis in Film and Its Implications
  10. CHAPTER 2 Genres within Genres within Genres: Nested Narrative and Metalepsis
  11. CHAPTER 3 ‘Disappeared where it’s real hard to disappear’: Three Ways of Getting Lost in INLAND EMPI
  12. CHAPTER 4 Achieving Coherence: Diegesis and Death in Holy Motors
  13. Part 2 Disorientating Figures and Figures of Disorientation
  14. CHAPTER 5 Figuring (Out) Films: Figuration in Narrative Cinema
  15. CHAPTER 6 Distinguishing the Indistinguishable: Figures of Imperceptibility and Impossibility in Los
  16. CHAPTER 7 Homes for Displaced Figures: Pedro Costa’s Colossal Youth
  17. CHAPTER 8 Sink or Swim: Immersing Ourselves in Jean-Luc Godard’s Adieu au langage
  18. Conclusion: Method-Free Orientation
  19. Appendix
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Filmography
  23. Index