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About this book
Standard Hollywood narrative movies prescribe linear narratives that cue the viewer to expect predictable outcomes and adopt a closed state of mind. There are, however, a small number of movies that, through the presentation of alternate narrative paths, open the mind to thoughts of choice and possibility. Through the study of several key movies for which this concept is central, such as Sliding Doors, Run Lola Run, Inglourious Basterds, and Rashomon, Nitzan Ben Shaul examines the causes and implications of optional thinking and how these movies allow for more open and creative possibilities. This book examines the methods by which standard narrative movies close down thinking processes and deliver easy pleasures to the viewer whilst demonstrating that this is not the only possibility and that optional thinking can be both stimulating and rewarding.
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Index
2001: A Space Odyssey, 59, 68, 167
A Christmas Carol, 155n22, 167
A History of Violence, 161, 167
A Million Dollar Baby, 39, 167
Adaptation, 105, 167
Adorno, W. Theodor, 59, 69, 71, 171
Alice in Wonderland, 125, 149, 144, 146, 151, 154n18, 158, 167
All that Jazz, 89, 167
Althusser, Louis, 13, 71, 171
critique of, 83–86, 111n8
influence on neo-Marxist film scholars, 80–84
theory of ideology, 73–76
anaphora, 27, 125
definition, 39, 40
See also anaphora-cataphora interplay
anaphora-cataphora interplay, 16, 27, 39–41, 47, 50n9, 50n14, 113, 122, 124, 125, 128, 133
in Rashomon, 137–38
in Sliding Doors, 128, 129
in The Ghost Writer, 46
in The Sixth Sense, 45
Arnheim, Rudolph, 54, 58, 171
critique of, 64
arousal boost and jag, 30–31, 35, 118
audiovisual flow, 11, 12, 16, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27–30, 34, 41, 47, 49n6, 70, 113, 121, 122–24, 132
Austin Powers, the Spy Who Shagged Me, 111n9, 167
Balázs, Béla, 38, 66, 171
Barratt, Daniel, 51n15, 171
Bar-Tal, Daniel, 10, 171, 177
Barthes, Roland, 14, 91, 92, 95, 96, 172
Batson, C. Daniel, 36, 178
Battleship Potemkin, 49n5, 57, 167
Baudrillard, Jean, 86–...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 2. Closed Mindedness in Movies
- 3. Failed Alternatives to Optional Thinking
- 4. Optional Thinking in Movies
- 5. Conclusion
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index