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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789016103321

Autore

Campora Matthew

Titolo

Subjective realist cinema : from expressionism to Inception / / Matthew Campora

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-78238-279-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/612

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Philosophy

Subjectivity in motion pictures

Realism in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes filmography, bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Three Periods of Narrative Experimentation; Multiform Narratives; Subjective Realism; 1. Complex Narratives; The New Hollywood and the Smart Film; New Hollywood Narration; Fragmented Narratives; Multi-strand Narratives; Multiform Narratives; Brazil; Puzzle Films; 2. Two Trajectories of the Cinema of Attractions; The Narrative Trajectory: Realism and Spectacle; The Avant-Garde Trajectory: Realism and Defamiliarization; 3. Subjective Realism and Multiform Narratives; Subjective Realism; Vertigo; The Fantastic; Wild Strawberries; 4. Mulholland Drive

Expressionism and the Uncanny in Mulholland DriveThree Views; As Surrealist or Trance Film; As Fragmented, Subjective Realist Film; As Supernatural Film; It Is All an Illusion; 5. Memento; The Four Strands; Unreliable Narration; Disrupted Expectations; Subjective Realism; 6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; The Philosophy of Eternal Sunshine; Temporal Inversions; Subjective Realism; Sonic Metalepsis; The Marvelous Real; Conclusion; Filmography; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Subjective Realist Cinema looks at the fragmented narratives and multiple realities of a wide range of films that depict subjective experience and employ "subjective realist" narration, including recent examples such as Mulholland Drive, Memento, and Eternal Sunshine of



the Spotless Mind. The author proposes that an understanding of the narrative structures of these films, particularly their use of mixed and multiple realities, enhances viewers' enjoyment and comprehension of such films, and that such comprehension offers a key to understanding contempora