Cinema and Narrative Complexity: Embodying the Fabula

✍ Scribed by Steffen Hven

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 260
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book considers films that have experimented with new, increasingly complicated narrative approaches, including Stage Fright and Hiroshima, Mon Amour, to show how they reveal the limitations of most of our usual tools for analysing film.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
I. Introduction
II. Cinema in the Interstices
III. Narrative Ambiguity in the Classical Cinema
IV. Modern(ist) Cinema: Logic of the Encounter
V. Towards the Embodied Fabula
VI. The Complexity of Complex Narratives
VII. Memento and the Embodied Fabula
VIII. Conclusions
Bibliography
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index