Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in Contemporary CinemaWarren Buckland 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.
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1 The MindGame Film Thomas Elsaesser | 13 |
2 Making Sense of Lost Highway Warren Buckland | 42 |
The Role of Primacy Priming Schemas and Reconstructive Memory in a FirstTime Viewing of The Sixth Sense Daniel Barratt | 62 |
Film Form and Mnemonic Devices in Memento Stefano Ghislotti | 87 |
The Screenplays of Charlie Kaufman Chris Dzialo | 107 |
Time Place and Character Subjectivity in Run Lola Run Michael Wedel | 129 |
7 Infernal Affairs and the Ethics of Complex Narrative Allan Cameron and Sean Cubitt | 151 |
8 Happy Together? Generic Hybridity in 2046 and In the Mood for Love Gary Bettinson | 167 |
Lou Yes Suzhou River and Purple Butterfly Yunda Eddie Feng | 187 |
10 The Pragmatic Poetics of Hong Sangsoos The Day a Pig Fell into a Well Marshall Deutelbaum | 203 |
11 Looking for Access in Narrative Complexity The New and the Old in Oldboy Eleftheria Thanouli | 217 |
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