Impossible puzzle films : a cognitive approach to contemporary complex cinema / / Miklós Kiss and Steven Willemsen

• Autore: Kiss Miklós (College teacher)
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh, [Scotland] : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
• Disciplina: 791.43684
• Soggetto topico: Motion pictures - Philosophy; Narration (Rhetoric)
• Classificazione: AP 45200
• Persona (resp. second.): WillemsenSteven
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2017.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references, filmographies, and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I.1 In this book -- Chapter 1 Contemporary Complex Cinema -- 1.1 Complex conditions: the resurgence of narrative complexity -- 1.2 Complex cinema as brain-candy for the empowered viewer -- 1.3 Narrative taxonomies: simple, complex, puzzle plots -- Chapter 2 Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema -- 2.1 Why an (embodied-)cognitive approach? -- 2.2 Various forms of complexity and their effects on sense-making -- 2.3 A cognitive approach to classifying complexity -- Chapter 3 Narrative Complexity and Dissonant Cognitions -- 3.1 The concept of cognitive dissonance -- 3.2 Cognitions in dissonance: from social psychology to narrative engagement -- 3.3 Types of dissonance in narrative comprehension -- 3.4 Cognitive access to impossible storyworlds: immersed and reflected operations -- 3.5 ‘Impossibilities’ and embodied cognition -- Chapter 4 Taming Dissonance: Cognitive Operations and Interpretive Strategies -- 4.1 Cognitive dissonance versus narrative coherence -- 4.2 Reducing dissonance: interpretation and naturalisation -- 4.3 Coping with dissonance: frame-switches and poetic and aesthetic readings -- 4.4 Frame-switching as hermeneutic play in impossible puzzle films -- Chapter 5 Impossible Puzzle Films: Between Art Cinema and (Post-)Classical Narration -- 5.2 Impossible puzzle films and (post-)classical narration -- Chapter 6 Wallowing in Dissonance: The Attractiveness of Impossible Puzzles -- 6.1 Hermeneutic play and interpretive multiplicity -- 6.2 Orientation, navigation, mapping -- 6.3 Game logic and the fascination in failure -- 6.4 Effort justification -- 6.5 Diegetisation of decoupling -- 6.6 Fascination in infinity -- 6.7 Destabilised ontological certainty -- 6.8. Eudaimonic motivations and intrinsic needs -- References -- Filmography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: By blending film studies and cognitive sciences, Miklós Kiss and Steven Willemsen's study on impossible puzzle films looks into the relation between complex storytelling and the mind. Films looked at include 'Donnie Darko,' 'Mulholland Drive' and 'Primer.'
• Titolo autorizzato: Impossible puzzle films
• ISBN: 1-4744-3047-3; 1-4744-0674-2; 1-4744-0673-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792834803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II