Puzzle films : complex storytelling in contemporary cinema

Abstract

Introduction: Puzzle Plots: Warren Buckland. 1. The Mind-Game Film: Thomas Elsaesser. 2. Making Sense of Lost Highway : Warren Buckland. 3. Twist Blindness: 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. Frustrated Time 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 Ye's Suzhou Riv er and Purple Butterfly : Yunda Eddie Feng. 10. The Pragmatic Poetics of Hong Sangsoo's The Day a Pig Fell into a Well: Marshall Deutalbaum. 11. Looking for Access in Narrative Complexity. The New and the Old in Oldboy: Eleftheria Thanouli

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