Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder Bordwell David
Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder Bordwell David Narrative innovation is typically seen as the domain of the avant-garde. How did forms and styles once regarded as…
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Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder Bordwell David
Narrative innovation is typically seen as the domain of the avant-garde. How did forms and styles once regarded as "difficult" become familiar to audiences?In Perplexing Plots, David Bordwell reveals how crime fiction, plays, and films made unconventional narrative mainstream. However, techniques such as nonlinear timelines, multiple points of view, and unreliable narration have long been part of American popular culture.
Tales of crime and mystery became a training ground where audiences learned to appreciate artifice. He shows that since the nineteenth century, detective stories and suspense thrillers have allowed ambitious storytellers to experiment with narrative. These genres demand a sophisticated awareness of storytelling conventions: they play games with narrative form and toy with audience expectations.
Bordwell examines how writers and directors have pushed,