From Inception to The Lake House, moviegoers are increasingly flocking to narratologically complex puzzle films. These puzzle movies borrow techniques-like fragmented spatio-temporal reality, time loops, unstable characters with split identities or unreliable narrators-more commonly attributed to art cinema and independent films. The essays in Hollywood Puzzle Films examine the appropriation of puzzle film techniques by contemporary Hollywood dramas and blockbusters through questions of narrative, time, and altered realities. Analyzing movies like Source Code, The Butterfly Effect, Donnie Darko, Déjà Vu, and adaptations of Philip K. Dick, contributors explore the implications of Hollywood's new movie mind games.
| ISBN: | 9780415622455 |
| Publication date: | 30th May 2014 |
| Author: | Warren Buckland |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 322 pages |
| Series: | AFI Film Readers |
| Genres: |
Media studies Cultural studies The arts: general topics History |
From Inception to The Lake House, moviegoers are increasingly flocking to narratologically complex puzzle films. These puzzle movies borrow techniques-like fragmented spatio-temporal reality, time loops, unstable characters with split identities or unreliable narrators-more commonly attributed to art cinema and independent films. The essays in Hollywood Puzzle Films examine the appropriation of puzzle film techniques by contemporary Hollywood dramas and blockbusters through questions of narrative, time, and altered realities. Analyzing movies like Source Code, The Butterfly Effect, Donnie Darko, Déjà Vu, and adaptations of Philip K. Dick, contributors explore the implications of Hollywood's new movie mind games.
Hollywood Puzzle Films features in the following genres: Media studies, Cultural studies, The arts: general topics, History
Hollywood Puzzle Films is available in Hardback, Paperback
Hollywood Puzzle Films was written by Warren Buckland and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Hollywood Puzzle Films has 322 pages
Yes it is part of AFI Film Readers series
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