Cinema and narrative complexity : embodying the fabula / Steffen Hven.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hven, Steffen, author.

Series:

Film culture in transition.

Film culture in transition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--History.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Since the mid-1990s, a number of films from international filmmakers have experimented with increasingly complicated narrative strategies-including such hits as Run, Lola, Run, 21 Grams, and Memento. This book sets those films and others in context with earlier works that tried new narrative approaches, including Stage Fright and Hiroshima, Mon Amour, to show how they reveal the limitations of most of our usual tools for analysing film. In light of that, Steffen Hven argues for the deployment of an 'embodied' reconfiguration of the cinematic experience, one that allows us to rethink such core constituents of narrative understanding as cognition, emotion, and affect.

Contents:

Cinema in the interstices

Narrative ambiguity in the classical cinema

Modern(ist) cinema: logic of the encounter

Towards the embodied fabula

The complexity of complex narratives

Memento and the embodied fabula.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and index.

ISBN:

1-003-69252-4

1-04-078147-0

90-485-6129-9

90-485-3025-3

9781003692522

OCLC:

1023497835