Allan Cameron

Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema

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Produktbeschreibung

Since the early 1990s there has been a trend towards narrative complexity within popular cinema. This book examines a number of contemporary films that play overtly with narrative structure, raising questions of chance and destiny, memory and history, simultaneity and the representation of time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• 2008 edition
• Seitenzahl: 211
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 332g
• ISBN-13: 9781349303038
• ISBN-10: 1349303038
• Artikelnr.: 45074179

Autorenporträt

ALLAN CAMERON is a Researcher and Lecturer at the Australian Film Television and Radio School, and Honorary Fellow in Screen Studies at the University of Melbourne.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema The Shape of Narrative Time: Subjective, Schismatic and Modular Projecting the Future: Order, Chaos and Modularity Navigating Memory: Temporal Anchoring and the Modular Subject Articulating History: Archival Aesthetics and the National Narrative Deciphering the Present: Simultaneity, Succession and Mediation Coda: Playing Games With Cinema Notes Bibliography Index

Rezensionen

'Allan Cameron's delineation of four types of modular narrative (anachronic, forking paths, episodic and split-screen) presents an innovative perspective on contemporary filmmaking practices. In particular, his analyses of 21 Grams , Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Memento are exemplary.' - Warren Buckland, Oxford Brookes University