Impossible puzzle films : a cognitive approach to contemporary complex cinema / Miklós Kiss and Steven Willemsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kiss, Miklós, author.

Willemsen, Steven, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

viii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]

Contents:

1 Contemporary Complex Cinema 8

1.1 Complex conditions: the resurgence of narrative complexity 10

1.2 Complex cinema as brain-candy for the empowered viewer 16

1.3 Narrative taxonomies: simple, complex, puzzle plots 18

2 Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema 24

2.1 Why an (embodied-)cognitive approach? 28

2.2 Various forms of complexity and their effects on sense-making 37

2.3 A cognitive approach to classifying complexity 51

3 Narrative Complexity and Dissonant Cognitions 65

3.1 The concept of cognitive dissonance 66

3.2 Cognitions in dissonance: from social psychology to narrative engagement 68

3.3 Types of dissonance in narrative comprehension 71

3.4 Cognitive access to impossible storyworlds: immersed and reflected operations 86

3.5 'Impossibilities' and embodied cognition 91

4 Taming Dissonance: Cognitive Operations and Interpretive Strategies 104

4.1 Cognitive dissonance versus narrative coherence 107

4.2 Reducing dissonance: interpretation and naturalisation 110

4.3 Coping with dissonance: frame-switches and poetic and aesthetic readings 127

4.4 Frame-switching as hermeneutic play in impossible puzzle films 130

5 Impossible Puzzle Films: Between Art Cinema and (Post-) Classical Narration 140

5.1 From art cinema to puzzle films 143

5.2 Impossible puzzle films and (post-)classical narration 163

6 Wallowing in Dissonance: the Attractiveness of Impossible Puzzles 183

6.1 Hermencutic play and interpretive multiplicity 185

6.2 Orientation, navigation, mapping 189

6.3 Game logic and the fascination in failure 195

6.4 Effort justification 197

6.5 Diegetisation of decoupling 198

6.6 Fascination in infinity 200

6.7 Destabilised ontological certainty 203

6.8 Eudaimonic motivations and intrinsic needs 205.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474406727

1474406726

OCLC:

950450611