Hollywood Puzzle Films
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American Film Institute
Art House Cinema
Art House Films
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Charles Wolfe
cognitive film theory
Complex Film
Complex Storytelling
Complex Systems Theory
Dark Knight Rises
Donnie Darko
DVD Extra
DVD Menu
Edward Branigan
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Fi Lm Mind Game
Film Studies
Forking Path Narratives
Heist Movie
Hollywood
Hollywood Puzzle Fi Lm
Inception
Japanese Style Building
Jim's Death
Jim’s Death
Mind Game Fi
Modular Narrative
Mrs Dalloway
narrative ambiguity in film
narrative complexity
nonlinear storytelling
Pa Ul
Puzzle Fi
Puzzle Fi Lm
Puzzle Films
Retroactive Causality
science fiction cinema
Shutter Island
Source Code
temporal fragmentation
Top Secret
unreliable narrators
Product details
- ISBN 9780415622455
- Weight: 760g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jun 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Warren Buckland is Reader in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author/editor of nine books, including The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory (with Edward Branigan; Routledge, 2013), Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies (Routledge, 2009), and Studying Contemporary American Film: A Guide to Movie Analysis (with Thomas Elsaesser; Bloomsbury, 2002). He also edits the New Review of Film and Television Studies.
