Hollywood Puzzle Films (AFI Film Readers) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415622468 ISBN 13: 9780415622462

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

From Inception to The Lake House, moviegoers are increasingly flocking to narratologically complex puzzle films. These puzzle movies borrow techniques―like fragmented spatio-temporal reality, time loops, unstable characters with split identities or unreliable narrators―more commonly attributed to art cinema and independent films. The essays in Hollywood Puzzle Films examine the appropriation of puzzle film techniques by contemporary Hollywood dramas and blockbusters through questions of narrative, time, and altered realities. Analyzing movies like Source Code, The Butterfly Effect, Donnie Darko, Déjà Vu, and adaptations of Philip K. Dick, contributors explore the implications of Hollywood's new movie mind games.

About this title

About the Author:

Warren Buckland is Reader in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author/editor of nine books, including The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory (with Edward Branigan; Routledge, 2013), Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies (Routledge, 2009), and Studying Contemporary American Film: A Guide to Movie Analysis (with Thomas Elsaesser; Bloomsbury, 2002). He also edits the New Review of Film and Television Studies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0415622468
• ISBN 13: 9780415622462
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 322
• Editor: Buckland Warren