Drawing upon the expertise of film scholars from around the world,
Puzzle Films investigates a number of films that sport complex storytelling--from
Memento,
Old Boy, and
Run Lola Run, to the
Infernal Affairs trilogy and
In the Mood for Love.
- Unites American ‘independent’ cinema, the European and International Art film, and certain modes of avant-garde filmmaking on the basis of their shared storytelling complexity
- Draws upon the expertise of film scholars from North America, Britain, China, Poland, Holland, Italy, Greece, New Zealand, and Australia
List of Contributors vii
Introduction: Puzzle Plots 1
Warren Buckland
1 The Mind-Game Film 13
Thomas Elsaesser
2 Making Sense of Lost Highway 42
Warren Buckland
3 “Twist Blindness”: The Role of Primacy, Priming, Schemas, and Reconstructive Memory in a First-Time Viewing of The Sixth Sense 62
Daniel Barratt
4 Narrative Comprehension Made Difficult: Film Form and Mnemonic Devices in Memento 87
Stefano Ghislotti
5 “Frustrated Time” Narration: The Screenplays of Charlie Kaufman 107
Chris Dzialo
6 Backbeat and Overlap: Time, Place, and Character Subjectivity in Run Lola Run 129
Michael Wedel
7 Infernal Affairs and the Ethics of Complex Narrative l,
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