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Steven Willemsen Miklos Kiss Impossible Puzzle Films (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Impossible Puzzle Films
- Publication Name
- Impossible Puzzle Films : a Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema
- Title
- Impossible Puzzle Films
- Subtitle
- A Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781474431972
- ISBN
- 9781474431972
- Publisher
- Edinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press
- Genre
- Films & TV
- Release Year
- 2018
- Release Date
- 28/02/2018
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Item Length
- 6.1in
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 9.1in
- Item Weight
- 13.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Narrative complexity is a trend in contemporary cinema. Since the late 1990s there has been a palpable increase in complex storytelling in movies. But how and why do complex movies create perplexity and confusion? How do we engage with these challenges? And what makes complex stories so attractive? By blending film studies, narrative theory and cognitive sciences, Kiss and Wilemsen look into the relation between complex storytelling and the mind. Analysing the effects that different complex narratives have on viewers, the book addresses how films like Donnie Darko, Mulholland Drive and Primer strategically create complexity and confusion, using the specific category of the impossible puzzle film to examine movies that use baffling paradoxes, impossible loops, and unresolved ambiguities in their stories and storytelling. By looking at how these films play on our mind's blind spots, this innovative book explains their viewing effects in terms of the mental state of cognitive dissonance that they evoke.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Edinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press
ISBN-10
1474431976
ISBN-13
9781474431972
eBay Product ID (ePID)
240613697
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Impossible Puzzle Films : a Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
6.1in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
9.1in
Item Weight
13.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn1995
Reviews
"Kiss and Willemsen's book is an important step forward in the study of cinematic complexity. It offers a thorough analysis of complex storytelling techniques with a special focus on the 'impossible puzzle films,' reveals the cognitive effects and challenges they evoke and explores the reasons why viewers find them fascinating." -- Professor Marina Grishakova, University of Tartu, Kiss and Willemsen's book is an important step forward in the study of cinematic complexity. It offers a thorough analysis of complex storytelling techniques with a special focus on the "impossible puzzle films," reveals the cognitive effects and challenges they evoke and explores the reasons why viewers find them fascinating.', Impossible Puzzle Films is a dense, probing, truly enlightening study of a salient trend within world cinema. Kiss and Willemsen offer an enriching perspective on cinema's cognitive and affective power, its capacity to beguile, bewilder, and delight.
Table of Content
Acknowledgements; Preface; 1: Contemporary Complex Cinema; 2: Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema; 3: Narrative Complexity and Dissonant Cognitions; 4:Taming Dissonance: Cognitive Operations and Interpretive Strategies; 5. Impossible Puzzle Films: Between Art-Cinema and (Post-) Classical Narration; 6. Wallowing in Dissonance: The Attractiveness of Impossible Puzzles; References; Filmography
Copyright Date
2018
Topic
Film / General, General, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Dewey Decimal
791.43
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Psychology, Philosophy, Performing Arts
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