Impossible Puzzle Films - A Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema Kiss Miklos Paperback
Impossible Puzzle Films - A Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema Kiss Miklos Paperback Narrative complexity is a trend in contemporary cinema. But how and why do complex movies create…
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Impossible Puzzle Films - A Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema Kiss Miklos Paperback
Narrative complexity is a trend in contemporary cinema. But how and why do complex movies create perplexity and confusion? Since the late 1990s there has been a palpable increase in complex storytelling in movies.
And what makes complex stories so attractive? How do we engage with these challenges? 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